Yes

by Mathew Munguti

Created on: March 22, 2011

Yes. Political personalities lie to boost ratings. The politicians’ life is based on opportunities and if he can lie to score points on his side, then so be it, he will lie. The assumption in the politicians mind is that most political issues are temporally with no impact on the state policies and affairs, yet they have to comment on them.

When a politician lies to the public, the truth of the matter is realized days too late for the issue to have a revisable meaning. And what they say in public with a score can only be argued privately by the public. The advantage of the politician over the public is the platform. From this point whatever a politician says for good image and personality is worth, for the time being, so he believes.

Most political issues last for a short period; rarely will a political issue run for more than a week unless it is a campaign.  For the public image, the politician has to demonstrate to be fighting for their benefit, and is likely to lie to establish some truth where truth does not exist. The lie of the politician is actually to give us what we want to hear.

If the politician can acquire credentials by telling us a lie, which we are expecting more than the truth, then, the guy can’t lose those points. The public may come to realize the truth much later, one by one, when no one is interested in the issue. You will have to dig for eroded facts to prove the matter.

At times a politician may be opposed to an issue for political mileage, and has to maintain the political status with the supporters; at this point the guy tells about the cook cooking cookies when the cook is cooking colas. And colas are very bitter nuts.  Nobody wants to take something bitter. So the politician tells you they are cookies. That is what everybody wants.

The politician is a very careful person when it turns on his/her personality, this is his/her career, and it amounts to satisfying you for a score on his side. To portray a good personality to the advantage of his/her career, a cosmetic or a lie for this purpose must be at hand.

On matters concerning the public there are supporters and opposition, the politician must reflect good his stand. Some politicians have to justify the ideologies of their parties, whether they are right or wrong. They feel their beliefs are the best and must be proved openly to the public, at all costs, meaning truth plus lies.

On opposing or supporting some issues there has to be courtesy to stand by the truth, and some lie for their own reasons. If one party is opposed to an issue which may benefit the other, the public must be convinced with a lot of lies which have to overturn the truth of the matter. A bad guy must look like the best to justify his reason. A tyrant must lie to be perceived a saint and score on his personality. A politician knows that, without dignity to count on, his career is threatened. The circumstance forces him to lie.   

The politician is not a teacher of anything, neither a preacher, nor a judge and he talks of everything, more than the professionals. We can do better in life without politics, and the one thing that we cannot live without is politicians.

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