[Demagogues](https://doctorparadox.net/people-data/demagogues/) are politicians and other leaders who use [propaganda](https://doctorparadox.net/dictionaries/authoritarianism/propaganda/) and [[Big Lies]] to deceive the public into participating in a false reality, while they concentrate power for themselves in the actual reality. To get a sense of what demagogues are qualitatively like, let's see them through their own words: ## Demagogue quotes | Name | Date | Quote | Reference | | --------------------------- | ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [[Joe McCarthy]] | February 9, 1950 | "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [...] members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department." | [Read More](https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you_no_sense_of_decency.htm) | | [[George Wallace]] | January 14, 1963 | "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of [[tyranny]], and I say [[segregation]] now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." | [Read More](https://www.crmvet.org/info/wallace.htm) | | [[Huey Long]] | February 23, 1934 | "They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen." | [Read More](https://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html) | | [[Father Charles Coughlin]] | 1930s | "I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against [[Communism]], because it robs us of the next world's happiness." | [Read More](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/godinamerica-coughlin/) |