Political Truth Analysis

Politics hold one truth and that is, there is no simple truth. Political truth is adaptable, mutable and most of all relative. Sometimes it is even absent and even worst sometimes irrelevant. This is difficult for people as it is not the way we live our lives and this is perhaps the reason there is such a big wedge and difference between politics, politicians and people, for most people a sense of honesty underpins the way we deal with each other. Prime ministers ask the public to place their trust in them, but it is difficult to do so when they do not even trust their own political parties. Politicians cheat and deceit not only the people they are meant to lead and protect but also their own political parties, which makes it even harder to …show more content…
Evolutionary psychologists strongly believe human beings have evolved sophisticated abilities to detect when one is lying in order to stop themselves from being deceived. This is why the most efficient way to deceive people, is to believe the lies you are telling. Meaning, there is an in-built lie detector within us all, a little part of our brain, which enables us to know when someone is lying. Some possess better ones than others of course. However, it is easier to realize someone who is deliberately lying than someone who is lying but believes his lie or perhaps does it without truly realising it (Firth, 2010). This is why it is harder to know when a Politician is lying, because most of the time they lie some much they begin to believe their own lies. They are convinced they are telling the truth even if they are proved wrong, this is why they lie so convincingly. ‘Self-deception’ is the art of believing in something only because it is desired to be true even when evidence point to the contrary (Pedrini, 2016). The more convinced of what he is saying a political leader is the more convincing to the audience he or she will be. The most successful politicians are those who have managed to develop the capacity to not only deceive the public with their lies but even themselves because in order to sustain deception through out time politicians need to be extremely clever, …show more content…
A tactic, which is pretty common, is to pull out remarks made by others out of its original context and depict it as to mean something the speaker had never meant to say. The media is the largest platform on which people get their information, however to make real sense of a story one must know the real source, which is not always provided. An article being read on the internet could be only half of the story, after all the off-the-record briefing has been important to political reporting for centuries and will not change anytime soon (Holmes, 2015). Of course, there are thousands other ways to represent facts falsely and politician especially when they are running for office, do not even try to resist using them. Something, which all types of lying have in common is they attempt to manipulate the beliefs people hold, to induce them into accepting a claim for the purpose of the manipulator, in the case of politician, winning votes. The manipulator, in this case, the politician tries to deceive the audience into thinking his claims are true and should therefore be believed, even if they should not be, or at least not for the reasons, which are offered. Political leaders who use misrepresentation and half-truths forget the fact that lying to the people they so desperately seek to serve violates the promises made, more importantly even, demanded by the public and that deceiving others is wrong. From a moral point of view,