Politics

This might be dumb for me to just think about, (obvious) but here it is:
Politicians are always skewing things into their favor, and most, if not all, politicians exaggerate and minimize in such a way as to benefit themselves. I think the reason they make a conscious decision to do this is that most citizens don't check the facts or maybe even pay attention to the news much. So, they weigh their losses: we can either use this deceptive statement in an ad and have many people not question it--but the people who do question it will clearly see that we were being deceptive--or be completely honest and not get votes--but have the respect of people who pay attention for our integrity.

In the current state of sound bites, access to information that perhaps we shouldn't have (I feel like with learning comes some responsibility to think critically that too many people probably don't take), and biased news coverage, it may be more necessary than ever for politicians to use this tactic. If citizens did their part more, maybe politicians could be more honest.

I don't know if this makes any sense or is completely idiotic. I guess I'll have to think on it.