{"id":1155,"date":"2026-06-10T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:47:11","slug":"politicians-have-an-honesty-problem-why-should-we-accept-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Have an Honesty Problem. Why Should We Accept That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><i>This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, <\/i><i>subscribe here<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1153\">Trump\u2019s Granddaughter Called Out by Fans Over Knicks \u2018Cheering\u2019 Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is how dumb I am: I don\u2019t understand how public officials can consistently go in front of the American people and lie. I legitimately don\u2019t understand. This week, Republicans far and wide have been (loudly) spouting unsupported claims of vote rigging in this week\u2019s California elections. This week, the president lied to Kristen Welker about his campaign promise not to start any new wars. This week, Marco Rubio lied about Cuba\u2019s energy crisis, blaming Cubans for the fact that their island is without power (rather than the fact that the Americans are blockading the island from receiving fuel shipments). This week, Markwayne Mullin lied, under oath, to Senator Patty Murray that he was \u201cheavily involved\u201d in negotiating new DHS reforms. Murray countered that he was not\u2014she knew this, she said, because she was there, and Mullin \u201cwas not.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lies, lies, damnable lies. Of course, it\u2019s not just Republicans who do so\u2014but they seem to do so more often and more blatantly. When not actively lying, they also evade the truth. Has a single Trump nominee acknowledged that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election? Not to knowledge. Not a single one is willing to contradict the administration\u2019s lies about immigrants, so-called narco terrorists, or the lunacy of his Iran War. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And I don\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n<p>All politicians shade the truth. But why do we accept such behavior? If I had an employee\u2014I have exactly zero employees, to be clear\u2014who consistently refused to give frank answers to my questions, that person would not be in my employ much longer. But when politicians do it, we\u2019re just supposed to shrug our shoulders? Pardon my French, but that\u2019s a load of hooey.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve somehow allowed ourselves to be conditioned to accept less than the truth from the people for whom truth ought to be their highest calling. Truth and transparency are base requirements for a functioning democracy; if we can\u2019t trust what the government is telling us, we cannot trust what the government does. When we cannot trust what the government does, \u201crepresentative democracy\u201d is nothing more than a branding exercise. <\/p>\n<p>When citizens do not trust their governments, bad things happen. Notably\u2014and crucially for the people doing the lying\u2014a lot of people just drop out of civic engagement altogether. The liars prefer less engagement to more because it reduces opposition, both in terms of quantity and efficacy. When Steve Bannon talked about \u201cflooding the zone with s&#8211;t,\u201d this is what he meant. When you open up the full force of your s&#8211;t-spewing machine, you\u2019re not concerned with aim. What you want is to spread enough feces over enough territory that people either spend all their time cleaning up your mess or walk away. Either way, you win because while they\u2019re dealing with your excrement, you\u2019re busy picking their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1151\">MAGA Reality Candidate Offered Potential New Gig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a deeply cynical and deeply effective strategy. Consider our mainstream media, which will happily open its collective mouth for whatever dookies Bannon et al wish to deposit. Take the president\u2019s aforementioned <i>Meet the Press <\/i>meltdown. For days now, we\u2019ve been focused on Trump\u2019s heated walkout rather than the substance of the interview, which concerned, among other things, Trump\u2019s lies about the California election and his lies about the Iran War. So now we\u2019re talking about temperament rather than actual problems facing farmers, for example, who cannot afford their fertilizer because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. That we were encouraged to take Trump \u201cseriously, not literally\u201d ought to have been disqualifying for a candidate for President of the United States. Instead, because we\u2019re used to obfuscation from public officials, we accepted it.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Why do we just take it? Being accustomed to something does not mean we need to accept it. Part of the problem is that too many politicians recognize voters do not hold them to account for their lies and misrepresentations, so they feel free to go right on doing it. They know there are no consequences in American political life for lying, not even lying under oath. We know this because, just this week, Marco Rubio\u2014under oath\u2014testified that he\u2019s never seen Trump asleep, despite the fact that his interrogator, Rep. Ted Lieu, played clips of Trump sleeping during multiple Oval Office meetings with Rubio in attendance. They lie because lying is easy for them. Practice, I guess, really does make perfect.<\/p>\n<p>We accepted the volume of Trump\u2019s lies during the first term, which led to the deadlier lies of the second. We accepted the corruption of the first term, which led to the exponentially greater corruption in the second. We allowed the revisionism of January 6 to infect the truth, paving the way for pardons and the rehabilitation of the insurrectionists, some of whom have now found jobs within the administration. This isn\u2019t gaslighting; it\u2019s a gas explosion. It\u2019s deliberate, and it\u2019s likely to be our undoing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>Don\u2019t let the conversation stop here. Get more of Michael Ian Black\u2019s sharp, unfiltered political commentary delivered straight to your inbox by <\/i><i>subscribing to his Substack<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1149\">Confused Trump, 79, Appears to Forget Why Everyone\u2019s There<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This column is being republished with permission from its original home on Substack. For more from Michael Ian Black, subscribe here. 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