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After all, if you make people afraid, they’ll do what you want, even if they’re afraid of a lie

According to the FBI, the four large U.S. cities (with populations of at least 500,000) with the lowest violent crime rates — San Diego, Phoenix and the Texas cities of El Paso and Austin — are all in border states. “The border is safer now than it’s ever been,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling told the Associated Press last month. Even Larry Dever, the sheriff of Arizona’s Cochise County, where the murder last March of a local rancher, believed to have been committed by an illegal immigrant, sparked calls for the law, conceded to the Arizona Republic recently that “we’re not seeing the [violent crime] that’s going on on the other side.”

But if anything, the truth seems to make people hold onto the falsehoods even more, it’s like they can’t stand having their worldview challenged. And that means that no matter what you do, that group of people, you’ll never reach. Perhaps a better term for that mindset is… fanaticism.

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