.. in the "Long-Run"
How old were you when you "figured-out" the riddle of "why" it doesn't make sense to tell lies?
The "lucky" among us, get there sometime around our late teens. Since "brat"-ism persists, today, (past the age of 35 for many), we're all plagued with the results of "mass-lying". We're all challenged to "find the lie" in a salesman's pitch; but what about the "politicians"??
Most of time, we can "tolerate" the politician's lies; that is a price we pay for having "representative" government. But in times like these, when the entire planet is recovering from deep economic breakdown, and all of the social and political pathologies that spring from it; political liars are particularly dangerous! In these times, ordinary ambition; ( necessary for any politician to "win"); produces monsters. We need only to consider the parallels between these times and the 1930's to get the point.
Then, there's the BIG LIE! The political monsters of the 1930s were particularly adept at using this technique. All Republican candidates (except one) embraced this technique, readily, in the run-up to the 2012 election. Tell a lie; over, and over, and over, .. and eventually people will behave as if its true; even when they know its NOT! Its a common failing among humans that political monsters, and religious leaders, understand very well.
My dad taught the eight of us not to engage in lying; for practical reasons! First, its very difficult to do, effectively. You constantly have to invent new lies; to cover the ones you've told. Then, it only takes the discovery of one lie to collapse the entire "house of cards". He went on to explain why lies lead to theft, and, eventually, to murder (or, wars; when the masses are involved)! Where are we, at this point, in this train of events?
The damages that attend mass-lying depend; on at what stage the liars are stopped. Hopefully, these ambitious up-start politicians who have now appeared on our Hard Right can be stopped by the voters in this country?
Stay Vigilant! "Slippery-slopes" in all directions?
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