RE: Do conservatives lie more than liberals?
June 16, 2018 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2018 at 11:42 pm by Whateverist.)
(June 16, 2018 at 5:09 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Simple question, do conservatives lie more than liberals?
I'm thinking specifically of political and public policy claims, but answer this as you wish.
I know one that does, thought to be fair I'm not sure Trump's positions are coherent enough to make him fall neatly under any heading.
People lie. All of them. In spite of their best intentions. Right not the lies on the right in support of the Trump cult really stand out as mega-whoppers. But I'm not so sure about that long term.
(June 16, 2018 at 11:02 pm)henryp Wrote: I think a big moment for lying, was Obama's "If you like your doctor, you can keep them" statement. I like Obama. He seems like a decent enough fellow with good intentions. Other people like him even more.
So when someone that highly regarded just blatantly lies like he did, I think the expectation for any sort of truth in politics was put to rest.
That doesn't make sense. If his intentions were good as you say and he simply failed to predict how it would come out, then he didn't deliberately deceive anyone - hence no lie. Not everything said that turns out not to be false was a lie.
