when you legitimise lying to support your cause, it plunges everyone into chaos because suddenly any piece of information cannot be trusted to be true. Was the

when you legitimise lying to support your cause, it plunges everyone into chaos because suddenly any piece of information cannot be trusted to be true. Was the first result a mistake, and the second a correction? Or did the institution, seeing the effect of the first vote, doctor the result to fit a left-wing narrative? When both sides of the aisle refuse to build upon truth as a shared value, there's no way to know for sure and both options come across as partisan and untrustworthy. Note I'm not laying blame at the feet of either side; I'm just observing the increasing partisanship in politics and its effect.