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Why do American accept Liars as an accepted way of how their government should behave?

If your friend lied to you, you may just think he made a mistake and let it go. But if it is repeated over and over, then you would never ever want to associate with this person, ever.

Why is it that American people are continually lied to by their government over and over and if it takes them a week, a month, a year of 30 years and they find out that their government had lied to them and took advantage of them but these Americans continue to support these liars. It must be a lying society which accepts this type of behavior and supports it. Otherwise no normal person would ever put up with repeated liars, ever.

Update:

The comments below proves my point that almost everyone ignorantly support liars. This behavior is intolerable to all humans but Americans.

Update 2:

Also, everyone seems to miss the point that it is not about what politicians say as what they have been saying. JFK, Moon landing, 9-11, Irag war. Were is the truth. How could these people live with tgemselves and accept these lies and support them. Lack of conscience seems to be pervailing here.

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    Because our population is stupid and we actually allow just anyone to vote.

  • 1 decade ago

    The old adage is that how do you know a politician is lying? Their lips are moving. It is a fact of life that there is never going to be a political party that will do what they promised. The only people who do what they promised were either Kings or Emperors, Vlad the Impaler was a man who committed unbelievable cruelty but also inspired great loyalty because he was fair, he made sure corrupt people were punished irrespective of how rich they were. The first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang was the bravest warrior in his Kingdom and unified China after centuries of war, his problem was he went mad due to mercury poisoning. The real problem is that America has a fixed two term Presidency as a way to prevent dictatorship however, it does not prevent inexperienced Presidents from making a mess. The real problem is that personality is considered more important than policies and that is where the weakness is in democracy in many countries. America has certainly lost out on some great Presidents simply because they are either seen as lacking personality or the dirty tricks of the other side due to the selfish actions of the vested interests.

  • 1 decade ago

    People will always assume people in higher authority to be liars, regardless of if it is true or not. Not only Americans but most all other countries aren't and will never have EVERYone on the political leaders side. Everyone has their own opinion.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That's why the political parties get swapped into power so often.

  • 1 decade ago

    makin fun of Americans cause i will go to britan japan or where ever the hell u from and hmm lets jus sayu will never ask another question again

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    all governments lie, some not as much as others, but all of them lie.

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