A modest addition mayhap, "never shall these pull-fingers-out-of-ears while going ..La-La-La", the final defense against unwelcome factoids of any ilk.
Perhaps a direct contribution to self-delusion pioneered by the early-on Rush-mouth habit (I recall a UPS driver, turning around via my driveway--way. back.--who had that voice on): 'twas my first audition/I knew not who the mo-fo-was, just instantly copped to the BS he was selling.

Confess that, I had not the wits--on this first audition--to imagineer the Futchah to be accomplished by this Master-of-patently-false semantic tricks. I thus failed to realize the extent /depth of penetration into so many tiny-minds all around moi. :-/

(I could not now commit an honourable-seppuku for this blindness, though)--I'd miss out on learning, ~"Shall there be? an Election/'election' a year from now. Or Something Else??