‘Politicians lie. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know the lies our leaders are telling these days are bolder and more brazen than ever and that they threaten to imperil the quality of American life for generations to come? A President looks straight into the camera and promises the people “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” knowing full well that is a promise ObamaCare cannot keep. After conceding over twenty times that a president cannot alter our immigration policies because “we’re a nation of laws” and the president’s “job is to execute the laws that are passed,” because he cannot “bypass congress and change the law [himself] . . . that’s not how democracy works,” that president goes ahead and fundamentally alters the nation’s immigration laws.

How can the president lack constitution authority one day and suddenly acquire it the next? Days after a U. S. Ambassador and three brave members of his security detail are slaughtered in Benghazi, Libya, our leaders (from the President, Sec. of State and UN Ambassador on down) pledge to bring to justice the amateur American film maker responsible for the slaughter. Protesters protesting ‘rampant” police racism in America run into the streets and onto professional stadium fields raising their hands and chanting “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” And this, despite a preponderance of eye-witness testimony and forensic evidence proving that Ferguson’s Mr. Brown did and said no such thing the night he was shot.

They lie because they have come to the conclusion there is no upside to telling unpleasant truths and not being re-elected as professional politicians who could not make such a cushy living doing something else, and there is no downside to telling bold-faced lies in order to get re-elected, because nobody calls them out on it, and they get re-elected anyway.

In a nutshell.

They lie for one simple reason. They can get away with it. Our founding fathers knew this and gave a group of people the ability to provide oversight, while representing our interests as a nation with laws. Our media was entrusted with informing us on what our government is doing.

Unfortunately, once the press became the propaganda arm of the democrat party with the ability to shield itself from scrutiny, by claiming its first amendments rights we we lost as a nation. The biggest question is, can Trump as President with the help of the American people change this?

"There is a way that seemeth right to a man . . . but .

I almost used that Scripture yesterday, but as secular as FR has become.........

Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Why Leaders Lie

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes.

Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails,

he is put down as a scoundrel.

H. L. Mencken Chicago Tribune (23 May 1926)

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