The reasons politicians often lie is because the public doesn't want to hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Why do they get away with lying? Why do we let them lie to get elected?
That happens mainly due to the following reasons:
1. They must create perception of high performance even though it may not be realistic for various reasons
2. They have their eye on winning elections through populism
3. Lower moral character of politicians in general: Indian Parliament has a number of those facing criminal charges though they have not been finally convicted
Dear Mahmoud,
In this deliberations on determinants of speaking untruth by politicians always more interesting for me was when they lie? (why? seems to be easier to decode). So the manner in which they lie using words, images, gestures, public actions, charities would be a good research question as well.
Thank you @Beata for your answer. I gave some reasons (why) with the question already. I'm afraid to tell you such research bring no new result! According to Jarod Kintz “Nine out of ten politicians are thieves. The tenth politician is a liar, and the one who conducted the survey.”
That happens mainly due to the following reasons:
1. They must create perception of high performance even though it may not be realistic for various reasons
2. They have their eye on winning elections through populism
3. Lower moral character of politicians in general: Indian Parliament has a number of those facing criminal charges though they have not been finally convicted
The usual motivations for politicians lying are:
(1) to enhance their reputation so that more people will vote for them;
(2) to besmirch the reputations of opponents so that fewer people will vote for them.
The main reason that they get-away with lying, is that there are no longer any true "investigative journalists" on public media to expose their lies, and even-if-there-still-were good (unbiased) journalists, the public media has been transformed into entertainment (or propaganda in the case of Fox News in the US and the government-owned media in other states) (rather than news), AND the public have lost any faith in the veracity of what is reported in ALL media, so even if a lie is exposed by a competent investigative journalist, at least half the people will not believe it, thinking it just another smear-tactic (lie) of the opponent.
In short, it is the conversion (commercialization) of news/network journalism to entertainment (valued only for ability to sell airtime to advertisers, ranked by viewership "ratings") that has made it possible for politicians to blatantly lie and get-away with it.
So, in this capitalistic-politik the system ensures that, just-like-in-advertising, the people end-up "buying" the product of the most convincing advertisers (best liars), not always choosing the best product.
Dear @Debi, Thank you for providing good reasons.
John Mearsheimer in his 2011 book "Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics" suggests that most political lies fall into one of five categories: inter-state lies, fear-mongering, strategic cover-ups, nationalist myths, and liberal lies. The book argues that leaders lie to foreign audiences as well as their own people because they think it is good for their country. However, Mearsheimer does not consider the moral dimension of international lying; he looks at it simply from a realist perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Leaders_Lie
Dear All,
The question can be formulated like that why most politicians lie? I am afraid lying is a natural basic condition of policy makers. I think not the lying behaviour of politicians should be searched but why common often sober people vote for such politicians? Why could politicians cheat voters?
Dear Mahmoud,
That's a good question.
But if we give the answer - we also politicians.
I do not aware - why lie to policy.
Why do politicians believe they can lie when their untruths are so easily uncovered? Here are six reasons.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/six-reasons-why-politicia_b_1910335.html
Dear Vyacheslav please give your answer as there is no politicians here!
“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ” ― Gore Vidal
Just politics is the art of hypocrisy. I will like to know a politician who held due to his promise after the election?
Dear Mahmoud,
My answer is very simple - I do not know.
If I'm make assumptions, then I'll be a politician (behave like a politician).
Dear @Mahmoud,
Your comment sounds pessimistic however reliably. I agree with the issue of questionable results of the surveys undertaken on request of governments. Researchers may undergo various pressures with unfortunate consequences taking into account the truth.
@ Fadel Djamel asked: "I will like to know a politician who held due to his promise after the election?"
Dear Fadel, I would name Barack Obama as the politician who has held closest to his promises after the election; and he has done this very bravely in the face of total obstruction from the opposition, and floods of personal attacks. He seems to be less "infected" with the penchant for lying that is epidemic among politicians, and a general characteristic of all politicians.
Best regards,
Bob
PS - being obstructed from fulfillment of promises is not the same as lying, when the promise was made with good faith and believing it could be accomplished
I think @Bob is right in his former comment. Beause of curiosity I analyzed once how many and what media (internet, radio stations, TV) in Poland are currently bought and/or managed by e.g. German or the other foreign owners. It let to better understanding of the determinants of preferred content by particular media. So unfortunately money are making the media and political existence go around. (Nothing new).
Some neutral questions:
There is a difference between lying, i.e. not telling the Truth (thinking A, thus saying A), and conscious lying (thinking A, but saying B)?
Is 'not telling the Truth' because of access to uncomplete information, lying?
Then, how to make a distinction between these different possibilities from a practical point of view?
Nope , not because public does not want to but it does not interest them .
Yes, generally people want to, about stuff that are very much needed (Sorry - PRIORITIES of life)
If they do LIE (conflict of interest) then if there is a proper DEMOCRACY in place then they will know the outcome.
If they do LIE then I guess it is FOR the people .
Else - Imperialism is not new to humanity and public do not dictate FOREIGN policy actively (benefit of the doubt).
POLITICAL SCIENCE is the toughest not Rocket science :)
Dear Aparna. Thank you for your comments. Here I give another definition of POLITICAL SCIENCE. It is borrowed from famous George Bernard Shaw: “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
Dear Marcel M. Lambrechts,
Yes, politicians in all countries of the globe, so anywhere, to anybody, in all the levels of government lying to the Majority, as in that toth central and local levels, although political science is a social science discipline, established to deals the systems analysis of government and to the political behavior and political activity.
Based in my experience, deal extensively with the theory objectivly before the election and the practice subjectivly, after the election, that which is politics commonly thought of as the determining and the distribution of power and resources. They do not do what they have promised that the community needs, but they have in their passions for the interest of a small group of people. So, there are reasons that politicians lie with the dominance and the the public does not want to hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear and needs to live ... etc ...
They lie because they know cityzens do not have the power to put them in jail and because justice is too slow.
Dear Mahmoud and all:
The question has many facets, but if I have to select one, I would say that politics is basically a realistic task. Ethics is not out of the question, but politicians seek above all to achieve certain goals, using the means that the public and the other politicians --the political system- consider acceptable.
In pursuing his/her goals, a politician can tell the truth or lie, according to the specific situation he/she faces. In other words, politicians are not pathological liars, but lies are part of their arsenal.
They not always can lie. International affairs are a field in which lying is easier --and therefore more frequent--, since people and to a great extent journalists do not have direct experience of the facts. But if people are losing their jobs no politician can say that the economy is booming.
Lies, then, are one of the tools that a politician can use more or less frequently, but only when he/she can not be "catched", or when the political cost of telling the truth is higher than the one that is paid by lying. This depends heavily on the political awareness of people and the quality of journalism.
Because before becoming politicians they would not speak the truth.
We should not expect better politicians, if we fail to make good schools and value ethics.
The issue around it should be why public let them repeat it for numerous times?
Politicians firmly believe in what the German Propagandist used to say during WWII: A lie hundred times spoken becomes a truth! These days the Media is hired to speak only ten times a day and success of the politician is guaranteed.
I often say, politics is a dirty word for dichotomy or double standards. Politicians are invariably liars and have an ingrained tendency to manipulate and to get things manipulated to their advantage. In Pakistan the census of population held decenially has been delayed for 8 years because of political interference. How can one rely on the National Statistics if the population data have not been updated, or on data that lacks ground truthing?
One reason for interference may be the politicians want quick results within their term in office. This is no reason for manipulation or extrapolation but that is to their advantage because their win win situation is based on false statistics.
Mirza Arshad Ali Beg
Dear Mahmoud,
To my knowledge, (s)elected politicians are more concerned with *what electing/voting people would like to hear*, while electing/voting people are more concerned with *what their own benefits require* rather than struggling to find the right person who would be seeking the truth itself. But, it is a quite hard work for the politicians to resist against the warm/sweet MONEY or the immoral/unethical stresses put in someway by either the rich people or others who are caring for their own benefits ONLY.
So, let's *just* hope that in future (near or far), we would be welcoming the right politicians who would simply be doing the right *actions* (rather than saying the right *words* only) for the sake of the *billions* of ordinary citizens/civilians.
Briefly, in fact, we are all in a squeezed position between our *souls/hearts* always telling the truth and empty *wallets* that always need MONEY. The potential *heroes* (if any) would be born from this *fine* state.
Wish us all a BRIGT future anyway..
Regards,
Omer (as *ordinary* citizen)
I love the cynical replies! An excellent assortment.
You know how MBAs say that the only goal of any company is to make money? It's the same simplistic point here:
The goal, the motivation, of political speeches is only *one*: to acquire votes.
Politicians are not our tutors or mentors. Success, for politicians, is to be elected. Period. If they have to lie to get elected, they will do so. Shame on the voters who let themselves be fooled.
They lie because they have to stay in power, be elected or reelected by inventing, reinventing, cooking and distorting facts. If people do not believe them, they can resort to other methods.
Are people that are lying kind? E.g. They do not wish to hurt the feelings of others? Think about what people might call diplomacy?
Some hints about the evolutionary origin of lying:
http://www.human-nature.com/nibbs/05/frankel.html
Some people may be turned-off by a person who is too convinced. Some people have their own strong convictions and are not swayed by those of others. And some people recognize that the measures of convincing and being convinced may differ, depending on the context. Conviction maybe strong, medium or weak. The answer depends on all these variables and more.
Dear Marcel,
You have asked as you used to, important but difficult questions whose interpretations are uncertain and disputable. To be kind cannot be the essence of somebody. There can be and there are “kind’ people who deprive others of their fortune, rights even lives smiling and laughing.
Dear Marcel,
There are differences between liars and lies. There are differences among leopards, wolves, ladybird beetles and politicians. No leopard, wolf or ladybird cannot and do not want to destroy biosphere. What about politicians' aims and mistakes?
( public doesn't want to hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear.)
No not because of the public doesn't want to hear the truth the public would like to hear the truth with optimism politician lies to get support and to promotes people to vote for them so they try to pretend lie to convince the public
A politician is a person with a high capability of understanding of human mind and its functioning. The more he can convince people , the more popular he is. He knows where and when to hit. He knows the weaknesses of the masses and exploits them because of these weaknesses. People in their ignorance just follow them. Power in terms of Foucault is just an articulation and is exercised through words. This is what the politicians are quite aware of and leave no chance of even telling lies while proving themselves.
Two reasons - (1) they receive little benefit from telling the truth and (2) lying is not costly. Donald Trump has distilled this to its essence and makes no effort to hide what he is doing. But he is no different in terms of basic lack of honesty than all others.
If a student cheats in an exam, s/he heavily penalized, but if a politician lie s/he get elected (rewarded!). Now, a legislator is a person who creates laws. How one can trust/believe in a new law created by a liar? As you can see we have paradoxes here.
Dear Mahmoud Omid,
Policy concept, including the activities of public authorities and public administration, as well as the issues and events of public life related to the functioning of the state. The scientific study of politics is conducted within the framework of political science.
There are several different ideas about the nature and origin of the policy:
Theological. In accordance with the representation of the policy, as well as life in general, it has a divine origin.
Anthropological. This approach links policy with human nature: it is assumed that the appropriate kind of communication and interaction with other people is dictated by the nature of man (and, on the other hand, the effect on the entity, causing a series of self-restraint, and other characteristics that distinguish man from the animal).
Biological. This interpretation, in contrast, implies that the nature of the policy must be understood on the basis of common human and animal began -.. Such as, for example, as aggressiveness, self-preservation instinct, fighting for survival, etc. Ethologist K. Lorenz, in particular linked to the the phenomenon of the war of aggression, revolution and other conflicts taking place in society.
Psychological. According to this view the primary source of political interaction between people are the needs, interests, emotions and other manifestations of the human psyche. In its traditional key policy treated, for example, Freud associated with the unconscious nature of politics.
Social. The appropriate approach is that the policy is a product of society and formed in the course of evolution, the last - with the growth of its complexity and the development of social stratification. As a starting point for social change data Neolithic Revolution can be seen, which affected both the form of management, and the way of life of people in general.
Regards, Shafagat
All these aspects come with daily experience, not with theory?
If daily experience is more important than theory, why not applying this for education too?
Can questions ever be lies?
Dear Marcel M. Lambrechts,
please have a look at the link https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/490153.Charles_de_Gaulle ,
Charles de Gaulle: Quotes (in particalar, on this topic):
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
“In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
“Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.”
In my opinion, the greater the level of democracy in the country, the greater the chance s that a politician will lie.
In democracy, we have to select a leader among the available options. Among the options that we are given is not an honest leader than what we can do?. We have to select any one who may not be a true leader, who may be a big liar, who may be a corrupt, who may be a deceiver, who may biased, who may be selfish etc...
I need to think how to tackle such leaders to clean the Democracy.
Regards,
M.N.Alam
Politicians lie because the public wants to be lied to!
The reasons politicians lie is because the public doesn't want to hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. When two candidates are running and one of the tells the truth and the other says what the public wants to hear, the one who says what the public wants to hear wins the election. Thus, and there are exceptions to this, if you want to win an election, you better start lying, because the guy who's telling you the truth doesn't have a chance.
If a lie is told enough times, people will assume it is true!
http://www.perkel.com/politics/lies.htm
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201209/six-reasons-why-politicians-believe-they-can-lie
The same question could be asked to the children.
Kids lie to hide a "bad" thing done, to get somethings which they assume they will not get when they tell the truth, and to look good.
I think there are different mental states behind 'not telling the Truth'. Only time will help to know what were these mental states behind 'not telling the truth'?
This is the job, they are paid for. They act as actors and they play a role. See Reagan, Donald Trump, Clinton, Berlusconi, Swarcheneger, etc. In contrast Olof Joachim Palme, Martin Luther King, etc. who were not actors were assassinated and many others that could change the European history as Enrico Berlinguer died from cerebral hemorrhage. « Basta, Enrico ! » ; « En-ri-co ! En-ri-co ! En-ri-co ! It was the 7 June 1984 before the triumph of PCI in European elections. In the general election of June 1976, the PCI gained 34.4% of the vote. After his death and many other events that affected Italy, the PCI lost power.
I think politicians lie because they want to impress 'overhearing audience', they want to save or protect their face and justify their actions.
Based on the excellent answers from colleagues from different regions, I am tempted to conclude that such an act of deceiving people to get elected by politicians is common and widespread everywhere. Why and when they lie? When they do it's because people (voters) listen! So, if you want to win an election, you better start lying, because the one who's telling you the truth doesn't have a chance.
Selling ice-creams is like an election campaign! Politicians must choose to either stand up for what they believe or maximize their vote. To put it bluntly: they either lie or they lose.
In most cases they say what they think that their electorate would like to hear.
Politicians lie when they believe that dishonesty is the best policy for getting elected. Even politicians know that other politicians lie.Politicians know their followers will believe them. If we want our politicians to be honest with us, then we will have to stop punishing them at the ballot box for being brave enough to tell us the truth.
Dear Colleagues,
'Good Day,
To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for."
----- Jamie Sives
Dear Mahmoud,
Why do politicians lie?
- because it is their job. (And they are good at what they do... )
OK, politicians, as other people, are not perfect. What would be the world without politicians?
Is the functioning of the human world like a big Theater, i.e. a couple of actors (e.g. politicians)exposed to a big audience (e.g. the people of a town, city, region, country, continent...)? If the act is good, people are coming back, or not?
Dear @Hazim we had that quote already on Page 2. Thank you.
Dear @Maria, thank you for your brief comment. If we all know that the lie, then how we vote for them?It looks we are as guilty as politicians. As Robert Sobel famously said "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
Dear @Marcel. Thank you for asking. It would be very much better. Perhaps OR a world without politicians wion't be a perfect one?
Let's take the other non-democratic system: A dictator does not have to lie to seduce.
The dictator will say: this is my decision, no lying needed? !
Perhaps lying is a kind of a game? Do you like playing games, or not, e.g. with versus without a dictator?
To be, or not to be, that is the question: There are but two Powers in the World | The Sword and the Mind. In the long run the Sword is always beaten by the Mind ~Napoleon Bonaparte
Dear Colleagues, Dear Prof. Mahmoud
Good Day,
I am so sorry to repeat that quotation which you mentioned in page 2, I did not go through all the pages and I wanted to share that with you, I thank you so much for mentioning that to me. Therefore I changed the quote now!!
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
----- George Orwell
Yes, Dear Mahmoud,
Politics are a lie and that it has become customary for a long time and this issue has been overcome since the time. Understanding liars varying degrees because of talk about hard truth were exposed to speak the truth of the murder. Here plays money when voters can have access to these fundamental ruling classes. Due to impossibility to study their behavior and their credibility in order to address their lying. The people always glorify politicians and forget the scientists who sacrifice for the Earth and human survival.
Please, kindly view my question on RG:
Could you mention some scientists in your country who has activities in environmental protection and he has been subjected to arrest?
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."
----- Nikita Khrushchev
Because very often they are not even able to know the truth, let alone to reveal. Most of these are opportunists.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
See what "Adolf Hitler" Quotes about lies ....
I think they are more interested in winning at whatever cost. It is not just that people are not interested in the truth, in my view many people don't exactly know the truth. So the typical politician not wanting to waste his time explaining what the truth is will simply tell the people what they want to hear. The politician is no father christmas he is in the business of winning the next election.
As George Stoica correctly mentions it is part of the job description never to say the whole truth but part of it . Politicians always surf the wave beyond yes or no for they mostly deal with fuzzy situations in a fuzzy world..
I agree with Josef.
Because they run business of lie, more you lie more the gain, more gain means more lie. thus cycle keeps on repeating, frequency and intensity increases till s/he leaves the world. More people hate them more they are happy as in case of villain in a drama.
Politician are interested in their party & at the time of election they come out with all the promise they bring before the public & every where in certain cases audience either wanted to see their leader & the impression with the politician they have created in their public meeting .
When the party comes in the power ,they are no certain whatever the promise they have passed on to the audience it remains only with promises .
Besides politician are interested to keep their position safe & for this in order to maintain their position they come out with the fault promise with there fully aware that they are not going to be a fulfill but it works at the time gap.
During my early days i have cherished in my memory a very interesting message for the politician '' POWER CORRUPTS POWER ,ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY ''.
However if the country is lucky enough ,they may receive the leader which is not only powerful but also as a message for the citizens to make the country on the FOOTSTEPS of welfare country covering every areas of welfare & such leaders w ill being remember as historian for the country .
This is my personal opinion
Lying is a topic of importance to several fields of philosophy, most prominently philosophy of language, the epistemology of testimony, in ethics and politics. Many philosophers have accordingly attempted to arrive at a satisfactory account of the nature of lying itself. There are two developments within this mindset. First, the acknowledgment that lying does not require intending to deceive. Second recent work on the lying-misleading distinction - in particular, arguments to the effect that there is no genuine moral distinction between lying and merely misleading, and debate over the impact of accounts of the lying misleading distinction on issues concerning truth-conditional content and assertion.
Politicians propose, support and create laws or policies that govern the land and, by extension, its people.
The Qualities of a Good Politician in a Democratic Society
A good and responsible politician will give high regard for morality, law abiding with no tendencies to corrupt even a single cent or kobo. The greatest strength of good politicians is deriving joy in serving people and not to steal tax payer’s money. They know that a fulfilling and meaningful life is created through service to others. To be an effective politician, your followers must have trust in you. And the very best way for a politician to build trust is to display good sense of characters and qualities composed of values, beliefs, traits and skills.
Read full article from the attached link.
http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/The-Qualities-of-a-Good-Politician-in-a-Democratic-Society-20130831
Dear Marcel,
Yes, in case of professional liars even questions are lies.
Dear Marcel,
Dear All,
Coming back to the evolutionary advantage of lies, are lying and lying capability advantages from point of view of a population – society? Who gains when lying? What about if lying capability of people is various and it is? Is there a likelihood to “breed” a successful human liar subspecies? Are there genetically thoroughbred politicians?
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ~ George Orwell (1903-1950)
Politicians lie because it is impossible for them to meet the needs of all the people in their constituencies. They sometimes tend to tell people what they want to hear even when such sayings are fables. THEY NEED TO SAY SOMETHINGS TO KEEP THE SYSTEM GOING
Isolated from from human being , from natural function , ethical virtue as lying in a mean between excess and defect
Politicians have an inherent need to have power over others. To fulfill this need there is no truth beyond power. Those who promote a cause deal with truth after a fashion. Who does not want better education for our children, a better environment, natural climate, clean air, justice for all, etc? It is true that a politician wants the same along with power. Why not bend the truth to achieve the greater good? After all, do not the ends justify the means? Unfortunately, the greater good is power over others.
Politicians have an inherent need to have power over others. To fulfill this need there is no truth beyond power. Those who promote a cause deal with truth after a fashion. Who does not want better education for our children, a better environment, natural climate, clean air, justice for all, etc? It is true that a politician wants the same along with power. Why not bend the truth to achieve the greater good? After all, do not the ends justify the means? Unfortunately, the greater good is power over others.
I think they lie to get the votes, but it is not clear at the time that what they say is a lie. They speak or promise the "truth", but it may turn out to be a lie later. In the meantime, you already voted for that person, so you got tricked!
Adlai Stevenson - "I offer my opponents a bargain: when they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them"
They are born liars and believe that they can not progress without this. They attract by generating high hopes and unrealistic promises, which is not possible without this.
Politics is always about lying. People are prevaricating; distracting, making listeners believe things that aren’t always factually true.
Because of our modern media cycle and social media, is there’s an emphasis on bigger and bigger lies, as a way to grab headlines. And there’s an antagonism toward the media that plays well even in the media. Those two things together are contributing, I think, to the greater obviousness of the lying and perhaps a proliferation of slightly more of it than before.
For more information, look at the following link:
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/10/politics_is_always_about_lying_but_youre_not_crazy_if_you_think_the_lies_are_getting_bigger_and_more_frequent/
Person A tels story A to an audience with 1000 people having different backgrounds. What is the probability that at least one person of the audience will claim that story A from person A is a lie? Does the judgement of story A from person A result from the background knowledge of the audience?
What is the predictive power of politicians reflected in the stories they tell and their future impact?
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Here is one of the "10 of the Biggest Lies in History", Number three Entitled :
"Clinton/Lewinsky Affair
In January 1998, citizen journalist Matt Drudge reported a sensational story that turned out to be true. The president of the United States, Bill Clinton, had an affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. As suspicions mounted, Clinton publicly denied the allegations. As if this lie weren't big enough, it turned out that Clinton had lied under oath about the affair as well -- which was perjury and grounds for impeachment.
Here's how the truth came out. Paula Jones was an Arkansas state employee when then-governor Clinton allegedly propositioned her. She later sued him for sexual harassment. In an effort to prove that Clinton had a pattern of such behavior, lawyers set out to expose his sexual affairs. They found Linda Tripp, a former White House secretary and confidant of Lewinsky. Tripp recordedtelephone conversations in which Lewinsky talked of her affair with Clinton. Lawyers then probed Clinton with specific questions and cornered him into denying the affair under oath.
During the highly publicized scandal, prosecutor Kenneth Starr subpoenaed Clinton, who finally admitted to the relationship. Based on Starr's report, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton for not only perjury but obstruction of justice. Despite the scandal, Clinton maintained relatively high approval ratings from the American public, and the Senate acquitted him of the charges. However, in the eyes of many Americans, his legacy remained tarnished."....
Please, see the link for the rest ....
http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/10-biggest-lies-in-history8.htm
A beautiful quote on the mindset of politicians from Serge Zeller .When we know that the word "primary" describes what is primitive, we better understand what state of mind our politicians are preparing to face their rivals, starting with to confer shamelessly in their own "family" policy. So well, without nobility, they can become "elite" of democracy.
Lie is seems to be a property of a leader, particularly, in democracy.
Dear Fadel.
Very nice quote that gives a real image of politicians
Dear @Mahmoud, thanks for sharing the question. I like this sort of questions. Sorry for late response.
In Serbia, politicians do lie, it is so common nowadays. Sometimes, it happens so often, elections follow. in to months. Look this proposal from Serbia.
"Municipal polygraph" proposed to tackle lying politicians!!!
"The Municipal Assembly in Gornji Milanovac, a town in central Serbia, is considering a proposal "to urgently acquire a lie detector."
The request states that the money should be provided from the municipal budget reserves, and that the purpose of the acquisition would be "to decrease all sorts of lies."..."
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2016&mm=03&dd=04&nav_id=97266
One traditional rationale for why lying is morally wrong is that lies deceive, i.e., in lying one willfully attempts to induce a false belief in the listener who thereby ends up with misinformation that may be potentially harmful. Yet it seems clear that there are many contexts in which telling a bald-faced lie will be counted as a morally wrong action.
They have no true agenda for their people, they are just work for their for them selves, as they does not want that the people know about the truth of politics, if the people know the truth then they will started hate from them and eventually they will be failed in the next election, because they are not the leader then are the politician.
is it always better to be just than unjust? The unfortunate truth about politicians worldwide is that they are mainly concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong!
Napoleon Ono Imaah
The Clinton Lewinski scandal was a dreadful issue (and a game of hide and seek to impeach the institution of the President of the USA) in american political history in many ways first the extent given by the media second the '"statement " issued to the press "I did not have intercourse " hence leaving to imagination the possible occurrence of o... s.. thus a clear avoidance of truth . The White House could have closed the incident by simply issuing a "'no comment" response instead of dragging the scandal for over a month.
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