Our elected representatives are lying to us. Daily. All 537 of them. [View all]

[cherokeeprogressive]

When they are not overtly telling lies, they are lying by omission. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" is a cliche created to describe how politics works. When politics became a lucrative vocation, the fate of this country was cast in stone.

To say we can effect systemic change while the people who got us to this point remain in office is to say a heroin addict can kick the habit while hanging with his/her junkie friends.

All lies, told by all politicians, all the time. Do not tell me that your elected rep is honest. They're not. When they sit in hearings concerning topics that affect the prices of publicly traded stocks and then make phone calls to their investment managers, they're lying by omission.

They are dishonest. All of them.

If a person who wants to be a cop should be given psychological testing, then so should anyone seeking elective office, for pretty much the same reasons.