One possible solution to lying politicians is to recognise they lie (mostly) not to hide a scandal but to appeal to everyone. This is the big fear behind faceb

One possible solution to lying politicians is to recognise they lie (mostly) not to hide a scandal but to appeal to everyone. This is the big fear behind facebook / cambridge analytica - the problem was that a computer could generate different policies for each cohort of voters, essentially lying to everyone so that the same politician seemed to be on everyone's side. There are two solutions - a clear single manifesto that everyone has to read, or we stop voting for politicians manifestos together - instead we vote for dozens of individual policies and then vote for the people to implemtnthen it's a terrible idea inthink