Trump's war on truth is designed to make us stupid and clueless

When I heard the news the authoritarian imbecile had fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics director for the crime of factual math, I dimly recalled something that George Orwell had written in a magazine essay 86 years ago. I had to look it up to confirm my memory, but there it was:

“It is quite possible that we are descending into an age in which two plus two will make five when the Leader says so....