Why Americans are always easily fooled by their politicians is because they are addicted to fooling themselves.
    They live in mythology, uninformed, misinformed, disinformed, gullible to spin, propaganda and fake news.
   The more they hate their politicians and resent their corporate employers, the more they love their military personnel. That makes them easy prey for fake war news.
   Take this current story about the navy SEAL killed in Yemen. Watching CNN, powerful leaders of the "resistance" against every Trump policy and every Trump utterance, one would think he transformed himself into a great president last night. How? Simply by bringing the widow of the navy SEAL to watch his speech, honoring her husband, then having her take a long standing ovation as she cried and prayed.
  I hope I'm not being too cynical and wrongly suspicious; reports of his death stated he died in a botched mission. But suddenly Trump turns him into a hero who accomplished an amazing mission.