{"id":274,"date":"2023-01-10T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=274"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T16:41:42","slug":"are-all-politicians-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Are All Politicians Liars?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I can\u2019t tell you how many times I have been assured by people on my conservative side of the political spectrum that \u201call politicians are liars.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;It\u2019s a common riposte when I encourage people to get involved in the political process and vote or when I flag the flagrant untruths uttered by the Democrat pantheon of political liars (the Clintons, Gore, Kerry, Kamala, the Bidens, Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, the MSM, etc., etc.) to my friends on the Left. For many, it seems, it is an excuse to accept the status quo and embrace inaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, in fairness, we Republicans have hardly been without sin, especially now that we must deal with an obscure, newly elected-fabulist congressman from Long Island, George Santos. Because Santos is a Republican, his lies aren\u2019t as acceptable to the Left as those of a Democrat would be for Democrats and their media flacks. But should they be acceptable to us on the Right? I admit to a certain degree of schadenfreude seeing a Republican capture high office using the same tactics used by our Democrat opponents; as Saul Alinsky noted in rule #4 for radicals, \u201cmake the enemy live up to their own rules.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the problem, though: once we accept the premise that \u201call politicians lie\u201d, we lower the bar for all politicians; we establish lying as an acceptable criterion for politicians. I don\u2019t accept that premise: I know plenty of politicians that are stand-up individuals and not liars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/nworeport.me\/2023\/01\/05\/are-all-politicians-liars\/\">Are All Politicians Liars? \u2013 Nwo Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many times I have been assured by people on my conservative side of the political spectrum that \u201call politicians are liars.\u201d&nbsp;It\u2019s a common riposte when I encourage people to get involved in the political process and vote or when I flag the flagrant untruths uttered by the Democrat pantheon of political liars (the Clintons, Gore, Kerry, Kamala, the Bidens, Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, the MSM, etc., etc.) to my friends on the Left. For many, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}