Politics & Deception

Today I’d like to discuss the startling fact that it is absolutely legal for political campaigns to run false ads. I’m curious why there isn’t an outrage about this in our country…but I assume we can attribute this to the fact that not many people actually know this.

In our country, there is no law that protects us against candidates who are running for public office that deliberately lie in their ads. In fact, the stations that air them can’t censor the ads or tell you that they may be false. I would think it would be illegal to blatantly lie to the american people about these kinds of things, even if only for the presidential campaigns, just as it is illegal to falsely advertise products – which is enforced by the truth-in-advertising laws. But no, there is no such law, no such protection. Their stance is that one, it would violate free speech, and two, that it is the people’s responsibility to inform themselves and seek out the truth.

The problem is, most people think that by watching the news and paying attention to these ads, that they are keeping themselves informed. Unfortunately they are just getting, believing and repeating false and misleading information. So how exactly are we, the people, supposed to make the right decision when everything being presented to us is totally warped? That’s like going to court and BOTH the plaintiff and defendant’s attorney’s are lying, deliberately, to the the jury. Is the jury actually expected to come to a fair verdict?