"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth"

[Escape08]

Or "A lie often repeated becomes truth"

How is this possible? Anyone can share an insight?

 

[AutoMechanic]

Because you keep hearing it and it gets stuck in your head as being right so that’s what you continue to believe.

 

[DemoFly]

Mandela effect, and perception is reality.

 

[Soft Cars]

Mainstream Media's weapon of choice.

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

There’s a disconnect in the brain, when visible evidence shows one thing but you’re repeatedly bombarded with people from all sides telling you that your eyes were deceiving you. Your brain tells you that all of those people can’t possibly be lying to you at the same time, about the same thing, and so you begin to believe the lie. Then they’ll throw in a tiny bit of truth mixed in with all the lies, and your brain will latch onto that tiny bit of truth in order to soothe itself and say, “See? They weren’t lying to me… so that other thing I thought they were lying about… must have been my misunderstanding.”

And now you’ve swallowed the hook and sinker, getting ready to be strangled by the line.

 

[Hall]

It doesn't become the truth, but it might become accepted as truth (by some). For example, "if you use high-mileage oil, you can't switch back to regular oil".

 

[edyvw]

It was utilized first time strategically by Okhrana, formed in 1880 in Russia, to fight what would become Bolsheviks.
Then Lenin used it after forming USSR, and Stalin really perfected it. It became the modus operandi of the KGB.
It became propaganda mostly by Fascists and Nazis in the 1920' and 1930s. Hitler came to power using lies, and eventually, the whole of Germany was on board.
Being populist without lying constantly is impossible. Some people understand how that functions and some people unconsciously do it, something as a "natural gift."

 

[Exhaustgases]

Major "CATCH WORDS" also help to enforce the untruth, lie, or teaching.

 

[Zee09]

You keep telling yourself or others a lie long enough you believe it as fact. Often you can no longer decipher what is true or untrue.

 

[billt460]

It all comes down to the fact people believe what they want to believe. Not necessarily what is provable fact. This encompassess everything from the Moon landings to communism.

 

[georgemiller]

Gaslighting.

 

[ET16]

There have been studies on this, basically as an extension of rhetoric. Rhetoric has been expanding in recent years, as it has needed to expand to societal developments with the use of images and other forms (mult-modal rhetoric), etc.. Thomas Edsall (columnist) at the New York Times does a good job of aggregating a lot of this stuff. I seem to recall a piece a few years ago discussing your question.

 

[honeeagle]

Joe Goebbels - Hitlers propaganda minster ,do some reading on him, he understood it best in the modern era with the use of mass media(radio)

 

[Pablo]

The largest lies in 2023 are lies of omission. So easy. So much huey being spewied by ABCNNBCBS, just leave some details out, people assume they are well informed, when it is really quite the contrary.

 

[dnewton3]

Locked.
Why?
Well, several of these posts (including several already deleted) are about politics.
OP - go take a psychology class at your local school extension if you want a lesson in human gullibility.