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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Liberal democracies are a balancing act of measuring the potential harm of one action against the potential harm of another.
Empowering unelected judges to send elected politicians to prison, for lying, would be more harmful to democracy than the harm of using elections as the mechanism for removing lying politicians from office.
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