I doubt he could fool everyone.

WRt to the war. The unbiased accounts show no intentional misrepresentation by the admin. So the authors whole premise is to play on paranoia and conspiracy theory.

So ther real question is do you want to bet on it the way it is now or try and fix it in a manner that gives some individual control back to the little guy? I think that is worth looking into without any regard to political bent.