> The use of fables, hyperbole, puffery or invoking of spiritual beliefs should not send a politician to jail. Agreed. But the argument is about lying, which

> The use of fables, hyperbole, puffery or invoking of spiritual beliefs should not send a politician to jail. Agreed. But the argument is about lying, which is not any of those things. I am not convinced it could ever work, though maybe in a society with a king it is plausible. We certainly manage to define "lying" well enough to call it "perjury" when you do it in a courtroom after swearing an oath. So it can be done. But who will be the judge(s)?