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Originally Posted by Stop It
As we have saw in the current GOP Nomination campaign, nope.
Anything Trump says is correct according to some people. Even when his "facts" are shown to be complete nonsense by groups dedicated to fact checking, they are called out for lying themselves.
Populism is corrupting democracy, in the US and Europe. Saying what you like is fine until you convince people that a pack of lies is "the truth". Anyone decent enough to actually stand up and say "Wait a minute, that's wrong" is painted as a part of the "system" which means anything you want it to be if it undermines someone without ever actually disproving actual evidence.
As you say, it no longer matters what politicians in the US say, it's "wrong" if the wrong person says it. That's disgusting in my view, and runs counter to every rule of civilised debate that should govern our democratic systems.
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Populism, short termism and knee jerk reactions, if we could get them out of politics we'd have a chance