When Is It Proper To Lie?

       Ya know what the biggest problem with our political elective process is? Well, while there are a lot of problems with the process including everything from unchecked funding to political parties, the really big, in fact the biggest, problem is the primary election process. See, in a primary, you are allowed to vote only for the candidates within your own party, except in a very few states that allow open primaries. What this means, and everyone agrees, is that you have to "play to the passions of the base."
       Then and only after the primaries, can a candidate turn himself to the mood of the general electorate, you and me. In other words, if whether you believe a word you say or not, in the primaries you have to say what the more extreme of your party wants to hear. Then in the general election you have to gear your statements to what the wider public wants to hear. What this process does, is to force politicians to become liars. Although that's not been proven to be a difficult task for most. That is unless you are truly an honest man, in which case, your statements will not change.
       The problem with that is if you are honest, it's unlikely you can get the nomination, or if nominated, you would have no chance of getting elected. It's not always been that way. But of late, we've become a country of extremes. And by that I don't mean the weather. Although we have been experiencing severe extremes in the weather too. But there's no research that suggests the two are connected. So what we have is a scenario in which you're likely to get a liar for a president unless he's already served four years and can't lie himself out of what he's done.
       Wouldn't it make sense to have open primaries in all states and have the top two vote getters face off in the general election? That way all candidates would be more likely to run on an ideology they actually believe in. Because, the thing is that, when you lie you have to keep track of what you said yesterday. And then be prepared to defend that lie.