🫢 Why Can Politicians Lie Without Consequences?

Politicians never lie.

It is human to lie.

And yet … everyone other than politicians seems to pay the price for lying. Some lose their friendships, others their marriages. If you lied as much as politicians do, you’d almost certainly be fired from your job. However, both elected officials and those campaigning for office lie with increasing impunity without facing any meaningful consequences … why?

If you are elected based on lies … are you really elected at all?

George Santos, an incoming freshman congressman this year, invented his entire campaign biography. Almost nothing he has said is true:

1. He claimed he was a “Proud American Jew” (he’s Catholic).

2. He also claimed to have family from Angola. That’s a lie.

3. He never attended prestigious private schools.

4. Let me just list a few more here to save space: he never ran a real estate empire, or a family wealth fund worth millions, or a charity that saved over 2,400 dogs.

Then there are the lies that implicate others:

1. He said that four of his employees died in the 2016 Pu…