I agree with Wlly Blly and will add that your perception is strongly influenced by your knowledge and experience. When that knowledge and experience conflict with reality is where people often deny the facts.
Trickle-down economics (started under Reagan) is now is now an undeniably invalid theory. Yet republicans still push it and lower taxes on the top 10%. — Also, like the reference to the French Revolution in the illustration.
That’s why I quit the First Presbyterian Church when I was 17. I was told in no uncertain terms that the only way to be a good christian was to pay a tithe. I’m now 71 and I haven’t been a member of a church since.
I agree with Wlly Blly and will add that your perception is strongly influenced by your knowledge and experience. When that knowledge and experience conflict with reality is where people often deny the facts.