I agree now politician lie without fear of being found out that they're lying because their voters _don't_ care that they outright lie. In the US back in '04 t

I agree now politician lie without fear of being found out that they're lying because their voters _don't_ care that they outright lie. In the US back in '04 there was a dispute about Kerry and Bush and whether they lied or not, exaggerated or not. The election pretty much was decided on how big a lie people thought one was vs the other. Today, that controversy would not even be perceived the lies are so blatant and curiously uncontroversial. If we go back though, politicians lied in other ways. They made promises the knew they could not keep and of course they'd blame the opposition for torpedoing their policies --but in most cases they knew full well that it was nothing more than fanciful thinking and it would not come to be.