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PolitiFact Founder Explains the “Epidemic of Lying” in American Politics

People don’t want the truth
 
Binary_Digit said:
Every good lie has a sliver of truth.

Stop being disingenuous. Trump turned the volume up to 11 and you know it. You're just trying to polish Trump's shit because you hate democracy.
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The answer to 11-level lies is 11-level truth, not lots of 10-level lies.
 
Binary_Digit said:
Trump turned the volume up to 11 and you know it. You're just trying to polish Trump's shit because you hate democracy.
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Noodlegawd said:
The answer to 11-level lies is 11-level truth, not lots of 10-level lies.
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eohrnberger said:
So why don't Democrats, Liberals, Progressives and the Dem's MSM propagandists / smear merchants stop?
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Disclaimer, I haven't read the OP's article yet

What is a lie?

Deception that is fueled by selfish-intent, selfish-interest and harm your lie causes.

That said, the consequences of lying are both cultural, institutional and legal (or some combination thereof).

In reality, society at large is at least partially to blame as the cultural consequences of lying have certainly diminished. This in turn only encourages lying.

I'm reminded of the video game industry and the trend of over promising and under delivering.

Is announcing a release date a company misses by months or years a lie?

Is showing early concepts that look markedly better than the real product a lie?

Are promising features that aren't delivered a lie?

Having worked as a consultant in the industry I can say without hesitation, that the truth is punished more severely then lies.

Large, multi-million dollar games are insanely complicated and can require 10s of thousands of cumulative hours of development. Problems with various technologies may not be uncovered until months or years into development, the problem is, a game company that tells the flat truth about the deteriorating state of their development cycle or reneges on features they genuinely believed they could deliver are punished for their honesty. People will leave or lose interest and move on to another company willing to lie, over promise and under deliver.

Being honest is as easy as telling the truth, being honest and succeeding is much, much harder.

The point here is, not only is there an incentive to lie, the industry has created an audience where telling he truth has larger consequences than lying. And some of that is on the consumer.

Politics is EXACTLY the same.

Voters, like video game players, expect perfection form their politicians and anyone that tells a hard truth, or admits to a mistake is punished by the MSM and the increasing trend of social media influencers who exploit any mistake, and increasingly, don't even wait for mistakes, they create them themselves and the audience cheers. Truth is not a virtue and lying makes money.

Pointing at others and ridiculing them for their lies while consuming media of people willing to drive your outrage for money, if that's you, you are the reason that the problem exists to the extend that it does.

I find that people aren't introspective and have little appetite for nuance. People are selfish when it comes to judgement of others.
 
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