Politicians Lie To Make People Feel Happy. There’s No Other Reason

I had read this article and found good. Basically it was giving normal view and birds eye view. Depends on person to person, but atleast it was saying good side of life even if it comes with lie.
People get it all wrong when they complain that their politicians never tell the truth. Of course they always lie – what else do you expect them to do? But so that you know, politicians have a perfectly good reason for lying. They do it because they care about you, people. They want to make you feel happy and content.

Imagine, for a moment, that politicians would start telling the truth. Take the current economic crisis that has been lovingly downgraded to a ‘recession’. Do you really want your political leaders to tell you that they have squandered all your money and now you and your children and your children’s children are going to pay off massive national debts, and live in ghettos, because your homes would be taken away from you and sold to rich foreigners to raise some money to pay huge salaries to government officials and their advisors? Are you sure you want to hear that sort of depressing stuff? Wouldn’t you rather be told that things are getting better, even if they aren’t?

Come on. Give some credit to politicians who only want you to enjoy the big occasion.

And who on earth would want to hear politicians admitting that they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing? Now how could that sort of truth make your life easier? It’s like a train driver announcing on the loudspeaker: ‘Ladies and gents, just to let you know that I’m not actually a train driver but a drunkard who’s just happened to be passing by and was asked to steer the train. I have no idea what the hell I’m doing and where I’m going.’

Imagine what panic would break out on the train. And imagine what would happen on a plane if the pilot would announce that he’s not exactly a pilot, per say, and that he’s just trusting his instincts for survival and pushing the buttons at random. It would be chaos, panic, mayhem. Men would be screaming with terror and women would be trying to calm them down. ‘There, there, dear, get yourself together,’ they’d be saying to their husbands and boyfriends, who’d be shaking hysterically.

And imagine what would happen if our politicians start telling us that they are useless. Would we have had such great leaders as George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and many, many others? And would we have such giants of politics as Silvio Berlusconi, Nicholas, Sarkozy, Gordon Brown or Angela Merkel? Or that bloke in Japan whose name escapes me? Not to mention the new European President Herman Van Rompuy and his sidekick, the stunning Baroness Ashton?

All these great politicians have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, but they’re coping. OK, so they haven’t been doing a very good job. In fact, they’re crap at what they do. But as long as no one notices it sort of works out. Could have been much worse, you know, if they’d started telling the truth.

And how about Iraq? Would you really want to know that it’s in total mess now and that things are not much better than under Saddam Hussein? Or that its oil revenues are being stolen and that Al-Qaeda, that has not had any presence there before, is now waging a full blown war for power? Not to mention that the whole region is a hotbed of instability and could explode at any moment?

You wouldn’t want to know such horrors. So you settle for the nice story about American troops getting ready to pull out, in an orderly way, and Iraqis being busy building a new prosperous life for themselves. Just like it is with Afghanistan, where the end of the war is not in sight and people are still dying in their thousands for nothing, but everyone is told that democracy is strengthening by the day and that the Afghans spontaneously hug NATO soldiers on the streets and sing songs about how happy they are that the West is helping them to harvest more poppies that bring so much joy to everyone.

The list is endless. Who wants to know that the Israelis and Palestinians hate each other’s guts and would love to wipe out each other? So it’s much better to hear that there is an ongoing peace process that is bound to bring a resolution to the conflict at some point in the very distant future. And how about being told the truth that China is run by mad communists, ready to start the next world war at any time? That would not be music to your years, now would it? So you are told that the Chinese leaders are actually pragmatic and are seriously into world peace and the free market.

And how about climate change supposedly brought on by mankind? It sounds exciting and enticing. It makes you want to recycle things and turn off your heater in the winter. But would it have been better if you were told that the idea of climate change is used to make money and cover up the many problems that politicians are failing to tackle? Of course not.

So think twice next time you accuse your politicians of lying. They are doing it for your sake. To keep you happy