As politics evolves over time, changes occur and new paradigms are conceived. Ideologies are developed based on opinions regarding specific circumstances within the societal and political sphere, and eventually become shared within the political environment amongst political members and grow into customs, legislations, or even governmental frameworks. One ideology making an emergence now during the 21st century is deemed the term “post-truth politics”. Post-truth politics is the belief that many politicians create fake realities and blatantly lie to the people, media and other internal and external groups to receive attention and satisfaction from voters and potential supporters.
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Although, he argues that the “truth” associated with politics is not so much justified by facts and evidence today rather than it is justified by feelings and moral intention. In other words, politicians are blatantly lying to their people to create a reality and essentially persuade them to vote for them. An example used is the first mentioned in the article, regarding president Donald Trump’s allegations that Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton were the “founders of ISIS”. The only evidence he provided to prove his point was the simple statement “The way he got out of Iraq was, that, that was the founding of ISIS”. This blatant and extremely ridiculous lie (as it would seem to anyone other than an American citizen) surprisingly received a great deal of recognition and support from the American people. Another example used by the Author is the 2012 BREXIT scandal in the UK. In 2012, the Britons were blatantly misinformed about circumstances regarding citizen life under the influence of the European Union(EU). The people were lied to by their government that an EU membership costs the country 350m Pounds ($470m) every year which could be used to fund the National Health Service, supposedly. They were also placed under the …show more content…
One factor that helped persuade me was the general fact that the author provided an abundant amount of research and facts to prove his point, all coming from somewhere else in the world. The number of politicians around the world practicing post truth politics just proves that this mentality and paradigm is growing and making its way around the world completely. Another reason that has helped persuade me is cases of “post-truth politics” here in Canada. Justin Trudeau promised the Canadian people, a majority liberal-voter community at the time, 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015. A risky promise that got liberals on board who wanted to be a part of this “great cause”. Although, after prime minister Trudeau’s election, only 10, 000 were granted access by the end of 2015. Post-truth politics is emerging in the 21st at a rapid pace and should expect it to become standard in politics for a while
This issue is brought up in the political article written …show more content…
Although, he argues that the “truth” associated with politics is not so much justified by facts and evidence today rather than it is justified by feelings and moral intention. In other words, politicians are blatantly lying to their people to create a reality and essentially persuade them to vote for them. An example used is the first mentioned in the article, regarding president Donald Trump’s allegations that Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton were the “founders of ISIS”. The only evidence he provided to prove his point was the simple statement “The way he got out of Iraq was, that, that was the founding of ISIS”. This blatant and extremely ridiculous lie (as it would seem to anyone other than an American citizen) surprisingly received a great deal of recognition and support from the American people. Another example used by the Author is the 2012 BREXIT scandal in the UK. In 2012, the Britons were blatantly misinformed about circumstances regarding citizen life under the influence of the European Union(EU). The people were lied to by their government that an EU membership costs the country 350m Pounds ($470m) every year which could be used to fund the National Health Service, supposedly. They were also placed under the …show more content…
One factor that helped persuade me was the general fact that the author provided an abundant amount of research and facts to prove his point, all coming from somewhere else in the world. The number of politicians around the world practicing post truth politics just proves that this mentality and paradigm is growing and making its way around the world completely. Another reason that has helped persuade me is cases of “post-truth politics” here in Canada. Justin Trudeau promised the Canadian people, a majority liberal-voter community at the time, 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015. A risky promise that got liberals on board who wanted to be a part of this “great cause”. Although, after prime minister Trudeau’s election, only 10, 000 were granted access by the end of 2015. Post-truth politics is emerging in the 21st at a rapid pace and should expect it to become standard in politics for a while