Why is our American Society dishonest and full of lies and deceit?
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i respect u alot man...it's not a matter of religion. if everyone apply his religion like it is we would live in a perfect world. but we r corrupting even religions.\nwe call our selves christians and muslims without even applying the rules of thouse religions...\nbut it's pple like u who will make our world better. u've begin with ur words and so on u'll make a lots realise the truth...\n                    my best wishes and respect to u...peace.
321040
President Bush is complete lier, and a threat to the American people with his crazy lets go bomb every body attitude. I don't appreciate the Bush administration inflation policy with the over printing of U.S. currency and spreading it outside of the United States of America. Our deficit is triple and the highest of any former President, as a matter of fact, the Economist say it's as much as all the other American Presidents, all put together. Lying to America to gain access to another Country without a declaration of war, and the approval of the United Nations. No Osama Bin Laden, Saddam has been in custody for over 2 1/2 years, and Iraq doesn't have Government except for the U.S. Military. Allowing Exxon Mobil of Texas to profit 340 billion dollars for 2005. The Patriot Act is a piece of toilet paper the takes my civil rights away according to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States. George Bush has another bill on the block to take some more of my rights away, called the Constitution Restoration Act, that was written by Pat Robinson & Jerry Falwell, and the dirty tricks team. The man is a criminal to the United States of America and we want him impeached and imprisioned for his crimes to the U.S.A..
411330
GO FIGURE HUH? \n\nLets get this straight America - he lies about the reason to go to war, he lies about the leak, he lies about the wiretapping program, he lies he lies he lies, and he is still our President. \n\nClinton lied about a blowj*b, and he was impeached. \n\nWTF is America coming to???
401303
The same reason ALL big-time politicians are dishonest and corrupt..  because they HAVE to be in order to get elected by the CITIZENS of this country!\n\nAn honest person will NEVER make it out of local city politics because the first time they admit to ever being HUMAN and making MISTAKES like adultery, lying, using drugs in their youth, having an alcohol problem, ever needing psychotropic medication for depression... seeing a therapist, being late on bills, liking porn, masturbating, wanting to hit someone, picking their nose in public or changing their mind about anything... we, the people of the USA will jump on the *Hang them out to dry* media bandwagon and their careers will be over.\n\nSo ya... if we want honest politicians we are gonna have to stop picking them apart and stay the phuck out of their personal lives.  Otherwise we end up with what we have now.. which is lobby-wh*r*s and partisan puppets with no opinions that haven't been previously approved by DC pollsters.
694234
The USA is almost the only country in the world where there is any credibility in "lie detectors".  They are regarded as junk science in almost all other countries. \n\nLie detectors are wrong almost as much as they are right -perhaps more often wrong than right.
434889
Because politicians are human, just like you. Why can't you be honest and truthful? Who said they weren't honest or truthful. Is everything they say a lie?
800597
I believe it is merely an extension of the overall problem of lying that is prevalent in our society. The 90's encouraged people to lie any time they did something illegal. Examples would be, the Definition of (is), killing a former friend/attorney to shut him up, getting involved in subdivisions that required more than WHITE lies to cover their involvement. When people in influential positions use lies to cover up their illegal activities, and then are treated as hero's it encourages people to lie.
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Immanuel Kant (a famous philosopher) said it is crucial to be honest because lying is the worst thing a person can do. This is because our society is built on trust.  All the time we trust people not to do curtain things (like blow-up the place you are in).  If you lie, you break down the trust that keep society together and if people lie to much, society will crumble to nothing.  For me sometimes you have to lie, but most time it is good to be honest.
92533
Because American's are lazy and no longer think for themselves. Our generation as a whole has become profoundly gullible and we eat what society feeds us because we don't want to work for our own cognitive nourishment.
760164
Our greatness lies in the beginning of the Declaration of Independence that ALL men are created equal and deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness. Our leaders forgot that concept in the need to forge power for themselves and this nation. Other nations were sold out to brutal puppet governments for the sake of our prosperity and security, but in the end, they sold our security for greed, for power, for corporate interests, because people everywhere will fight for their freedom against all odds and all costs no matter how horrible. We are living now in the "reckoning". Continued hypocricy will destroy us. When America wakes up, we will save ourselves, and in that saving, will again be a great nation based on the enlightnement of our founders.
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We often lie to protect other people's feelings, or the shelter them.\n\nImagine if you always told the truth, no matter what.\nWife: Do these pants make me look fat?\nYou: ---------\n\nYour 6yr old kid: Dad, Where do babies come from?\nYou: ---------\n\nYour boss: How's that report (the one you forgot about and haven't even started) coming along?\nYou: ---------\n\nThe IRS, or just anyone on the street: how much did you make last year?\nYou: ---------
575609
because they are liars
866610
Judgement and condemnation are the American way.\n\nIf there is anything that is consistent in American history it is hate.
544018
No, I do not trust people who lie to me. \nSaddam is friends with al Quaida\nWMDs known to be pointed at America\n19 Billion of taxpayers money "lost" in Iraq\nThe top 1% of Americans "need" tax cuts\nNo child left behind...right...\nThere is nothing we can do to bring down the price of prescription drugs for everybody in America.\nWho could know that the levies would break in New Orleans?\nWe are not spying on Americans, well...almost.
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One lie after another.\n\nWe're all apathetic to the suffering of the world and would rather vote for the American Idol than write to a Congressman about a war in which so many people are dying.\n\nI guess, as Americans, we are okay with people lying to us and using our money to fund those lies.
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Governments have always lied to the people.  In the worst cases, it's malicious -- a bid for power, money, whatever -- but in the case of the U.S. I sincerely believe that many of the lies have a more mundane purpose: communication.  Korlach Kyle is right -- you keep the people ignorant and they won't rise up.  The thing is, that the lies are not the cause of the ignorance but the effect.  Few of us have the time to deeply understand the issues.  I don't.  So the power brokers, whose job it is to understand the issues, simplify for us.  In the act of simplification, history is written and something between half-truths and lies are told.  We're fortunate in this country that the truth is largely discoverable if we're willing to search for it and demand it.  This last fact is relative.  Freedom of information changes.  Recently, we've elected to sacrifice some of our freedom, and some of our information, for security, but balancing this is the huge increase in the disemmination of info via the internet.  Dissemination, of course, is not the same as availability.  It would be a shame if we agreed to continue in this direction -- curtailing more freedoms for security -- out of fear.  We are a fearful people -- afraid of germs, afraid of fanatics, afraid of arguments, afraid of thinking too hard -- but we're also a fiercely proud people.  Already our representatives on both sides of the aisle are beginning to insist on our freedoms back as the ant farm gets its peace back.
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A Superpower with Superfaults. The unfortunate American people, through consecutive administrations from 30+ years past until present have lost the trust and respect of the people of the world. You are now viewed with loathing and suspicion. It` is up to the people to look deeper into their elected leaders motivation`s and sort the lies from the truth. This is the only way. The American people need to awaken from their coma`s, and search for truth. American intelligence is being suppressed by three things. The Government, The Media The Education System. Each one is responsible for censoring your ability to view the world in realistic terms. I`m not wrong on this.