Why we Elect Liars as Leaders

In an excellent article I read today, David Kupelian, managing editor of WorldNet Daily, explored the issue of why people tend to elect liars as their leaders. He drew attention to all the liars and evil people in the various governments in the past and present. Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-Il, Robert Mugabe, and others are examples. He moved on to America. Although founded on excellent principles, its foundations have been decaying in recent years. High taxes and unrestrained government power, things once thought wrong, are now considered acceptable. He said that power hungry people always use the same tactics. They cause disruptions, blame others, and then promise us peace if we give them unlimited power. They appeal to our anger, dissatisfaction and greed to get what they want. This system was first pioneered by Carl Marx. In America today, these things are happening, and we are becoming progressively more socialist.
The law is meant to protect our lives, liberties, and property, and we partially give up our own control over these to government so that they can protect them. The French philosopher Frederic Bastiat said that man must work to survive, but since man will naturally avoid pain, and work is painful, he will plunder when plundering is less painful than work. The law’s job is to make plundering painful. However, our government is not doing this. We have become too lazy to support ourselves, which is why prices are rising and our economy is failing.
Our taxpayer dollars are going towards corrupt politicians, politicians who are selfish liars. And the worst thing is, we NEED them to lie to us. The majority of Americans are rebelling against God, and if we aren’t following God we will need somebody to take His place. We elect liars because they keep our guilty, God-starved consciences at bay.
But how could we believe lies? Wouldn’t we see through them? Kupelian says no, because the larger the lie, the more audacity it takes to tell it with a straight face, and most of us wouldn’t expect that from our politicians. Hitler himself stated that “the broad masses of a nation…more readily fall victims to the big lie that the small lie…” Even if we don’t believe the lie outright, it can subconsciously affect us and cause us to partially believe the liar. One of the most effective of the “big lies” is to create a false crisis, for example, global warming, or fear of nuclear power, or an environmental crisis, just to name a few being declared today. These lies cause us to depend more on the liar who is creating them for protection. This is why our founders stressed that our government should be limited. We see today what the government can do. We have allowed them to do it. We can change it.