Politicians and the Cycle of Lying

An article in the Washington Post in response to their question:
The percentage of voters who find Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama "honest and trustworthy" is declining as the campaign wears on. Why? From a moral standpoint, how important is this quality in a president?
Politicians and the Cycle of Lying

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[Rockyman]

Along with the lying is the mischaract­erizations that often distort the truth with the goal to imprint onto the electorate an emotionally charged response. The goal of course is to hammer home a "narrative" that "sticks" whether it truly captures reality in the proper context. And this manipulation has gotten us on a course of imminent collapse. I suppose we are still moved to vote for candidates for the most bizarre reasons. Unless we are willing to ignore the "spin" and "fluff" and vote for a leader that will tell us in a reasoned manner where we need to head as a country we are certainly doomed!