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No shit. If you tell people what they want to hear, they trust you more.
The sad thing is that as a society we are stupid, as individuals we are (possibly) the smartest living beings, and this means that the smart get stuck either respecting the dumb as adults and being honest with them (which leads to where we are now) or treat them like children that can't yet handle reality as it is (which probably leads to other issues)
We are at the tipping point where we now find out that giving all adults the same treatment leads to the smart enough ones can abuse and manipulate the not smart enough ones to go against their own interests and against the really smart ones
People working together can't be beaten. If you were on your own, you couldn't possibly find out all that humanity has found. I think the grudge people have against science is that they think people who want to think on their own think they are 'stars' and better than everybody else. We need to push everyone together forward and not let certain individuals do whatever they wish. This is what democracy is about.
As a final argument to the person who thinks "but I want to do whatever I wish": the probability of you being the person who can do what you wish is really slim.