As surely as the sun sets in the west, there will remain...

As surely as the sun sets in the west, there will remain spruikers of AKP until the very end.

Carl Sagan said it best (and still relevant):

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”