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In 2016 it is, of course, common knowledge that anyone who trusts e-mail messages promising wealth from Nigerian princes is a complete fool. So why in 2016 is it not knowledge equally as common that anyone who trusts political messages promising wealth from politicians is no less a fool? After all, the public pronouncements and prognostications of politicians are just as absurd and unbelievable as are the e-mail pronouncements and prognostications of the alleged representatives of Nigerian princes.