It is perfectly reasonable to be a George Washington Libertarian (eschewing faction and party) and voting for someone who is a member of a party. But, as Washington wrote in his farewell address, you cannot expect faction and party to go away. His exact words are worth reading. I do not believe that politicians have to lie and I believe there have been many that do not lie intentionally.
However, everybody lies all the time to someone. It is impossible not to. The short proof is here…
The longer version of the proof is in my book on lying.
So catching anybody in a lie that you believe is a lie or two or even a number of them is always easy.
Catching someone in tens of thousands of lies that are clearly not true is something else. That is what makes Trump different.
So saying that, for example, Obama lies just like Trump, makes no sense to me. I only recall one time where I heard Obama clearly lie intentionally and it was special because you could tell he had a hard time doing it. Like myself who does not believe he ever intentionally lies, it is hard to lie without having a hard time doing it. I think a large population of people believe they never lie. Another large group of people lie all the time and don’t care. The truth is different but the damage of fiat lying is always there without a means to neutralize it and that cannot be done by experts…it is done by education.
