It seems that all politicians are increasingly deceitful and there are no repercussions. You would think having politicians under oath could be perjured and sent to prison for lying since they work for the people they’re lying to.
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Straight away, they are under oath when swearing in. It’s taking the oath of office.
I think the main thing here is that you’re trying to connect two different concepts. One is fulfilling the duties of the office, which is what they actually took the oath for, and the other is coming through on their campaign promises and whatnot.
You can only get them for perjury of their oath if you can prove that they took it without the intention to fulfil the duties of the office, and that’s a very difficult thing to prove, and not usually relevant because even if they did lie in their campaigning, they still really do mean to execute the duties of offices in accordance with the oath. Yes, even the dirty liars that aren’t on our side. The oath is actually fairly narrow in scope.
On the flip side, stuff they said on the campaign trail isn’t covered by the oath of office, or any oath at all, and thus there’s no grounds for claiming perjury and our only option is to vote the bum out.
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