When will the easily conned realize that political theatrics and histrionics happen for a reason?

I wondered this while reading a rant about Glenn Beck’s Televangelistic Shtick here. But it applies equally to Beck and any number of other political posturers and pundits.

Theatrics are rightly used on the stage and in the movies. We see an actor watch his wife get murdered before his eyes, and we totally understand his rage at the perpetrator, his horror at what happened and his heartbreak at his loss. But it is important to remember that he is acting. The lady that was shot was not his wife, but an actress. The blood wasn’t blood, it was stage blood. She isn’t dead, she’s just playing dead. And the gun didn’t have live ammunition, it was firing blanks.

The same is true when political televangelists like Glenn Beck do their scammer shtick. Like the famous televangelists, he and all his kind are in it for the money. How many times do the same people have to get fleeced before they start noticing the sheers in the con man’s hands?