You have to lie to get elected because you can't actually promise anything. If you could fulfill every single promise / lie then you already had powerful enough corruption seeded in whatever thing you were trying to get elected into.

What? You mean out of the kindness of your heart you want to get elected so you could actually painstakingly and arduously fight for every single thing that you said you would fight for? Or is it a stepping stone for further power grabs later on? It's literally all power. That's why the ones that get elected and have campaigns very well suited to get elected shouldn't get elected.

Although I used to think that with how slowly things move in government that people always make the false connection between current elected official and bad things that were put into place with the past elected official. But now things seem to be moving faster and stuff can just happen that actually is attributable to the current elected official.

I'm sticking with what my dad taught me, it's complicated.

campaign statements should be included as verbal contracts.

The missing pressing question: "Why liars are not marked as scum".

And "Why is an idea such as «Politicians ... not in the truth business, but in the power business» tolerated".

And "What else does it take to see with concern what future will be brought by the current decadence".

Oh, and a minor corollary which could be especially relevant here, further to intellectual curiosity and towards largely common interests: "What would this framework bring matched with the enabling power of emerging technologies".

Wtf?