This is why I'm so disillusioned with modern politics.
You can say what you want nowadays with apparent impunity even if it subsequently turns out that you were lying your head off.
Nobody is accountable anymore and it just gets brushed off and is acceptable.
And clowns like Trump and Farage know this and exploit it.
They literally just say whatever they think their core vote wants to here, even if it's obviously a load of made-up bullshit because they know they'll never be held fully accountable and will get away with it.
And it's going a stage further now.
In the past, if a politician got caught out telling a whopper, they were vilified in the press and had to accept the consequences.
However, nowadays we live in a world where all people like Trump have to do is wage a campaign against the "main stream media" and brand anything they don't like as "fake news" and they know their followers will accept this and all shout "Yeah! Dishonest media! Boo!"
And it's dangerous because the media is part of the accountability process and if it's no longer a useful tool in holding rogue politicians to account, they can pretty much do what they want with impunity.
And that's how dictatorships start.
You can say what you want nowadays with apparent impunity even if it subsequently turns out that you were lying your head off.
Nobody is accountable anymore and it just gets brushed off and is acceptable.
And clowns like Trump and Farage know this and exploit it.
They literally just say whatever they think their core vote wants to here, even if it's obviously a load of made-up bullshit because they know they'll never be held fully accountable and will get away with it.
And it's going a stage further now.
In the past, if a politician got caught out telling a whopper, they were vilified in the press and had to accept the consequences.
However, nowadays we live in a world where all people like Trump have to do is wage a campaign against the "main stream media" and brand anything they don't like as "fake news" and they know their followers will accept this and all shout "Yeah! Dishonest media! Boo!"
And it's dangerous because the media is part of the accountability process and if it's no longer a useful tool in holding rogue politicians to account, they can pretty much do what they want with impunity.
And that's how dictatorships start.