Well, To Tell You The Truth....

       How has lying helped us in this election? Well, if you're truly informed, it allows you to get your blood pressure up. Getting angry is sometimes good for your health. It also affords you the opportunity to have a good laugh, also good for your health. Because let's face it, some of the lies are so patently false as to be ridiculous.
       But what if you're not that well versed? Then these lies tend to deceive you into believing false information. There are fact checking organizations, the vast majority of which are accurate. But then some candidates suggest you not consult them.
       What's worse is most candidates understand that if they tell those lies often enough, some folks will actually come believe them. After all, if you see it on the TV, it might be true and if you keep seeing it on TV, it must be true. So good honest people are tricked into believing things about an opposing candidate that simply aren't true.
It's not one side or the other alone that's responsible for these untruths. Both Democrats and Republicans are doing it and with the advent of the Super PACs and the Citizens United decision by our Supreme Court, the lies are bigger and more outrageous all the time.
       Take only the latest example by the Romney campaign, and again I assure you both sides are telling whoppers, the ad claims that under Obama, the auto companies are sending jobs to China, meaning Americans will be out of work. But if you look at the facts, the claim that Jeep is moving it's entire production to China. Actually no American jobs will be lost. In fact 1100 jobs will be increased in America.
       They will begin manufacture of Jeeps in China because like all world car makers they can't ship them to China economically. That's why so many foreign companies like Honda and Toyota built here. Or that Obama caused GM to lose 15,000 workers. But the reason GM fired those workers is because they had to downsize and eliminate several brands like Pontiac and Oldsmobile.That or go bankrupt and fire everybody.
       Now, what if there had been a law in place that anyone who told a falsehood had to go to jail and could not continue as a candidate. What if then all the ads you saw on TV actually were completely truthful? How would that have affected the election?
       So getting back to the original question, has lying helped us in this election? Well, has it?