I think we are entering an interesting political equilibrium where we have a significant number of voters who either (a) are not truth-oriented and care mostly about the emotional vibe coming from candidates or (b) believe that candidates would be foolish to tell the truth when it would disadvantage them with type (a) voters. The more voters who fall into types (a) and (b) the less worried candidates will be about telling the truth and the eventual equilibrium is where almost all voters are (a) or (b).
Trump realized a huge number of voters were in (a), and Clinton realized that the best way to respond to her email problems were to tell blatant lies. (Sorry for being so political but this is my honest answer to a direct question.)
That doesn’t mean that this happens to be an equilibrium. An equilibrium suggests that a system is stable.
Trump realized a huge number of voters were in (a)
After reading the article of his ghostwriter I’m not sure that’s true. It seems more likely to me that Trump is a psychopath in the clinical sense who actually lies all the time and couldn’t simply switch to being truthful.
The suggestion that Clinton lied in the email scandal is also illustrative that lying isn’t something she does all the time but only when she thinks she needs to. With Trump that’s very different.
Take the lie about him opposing the Lybia invasion. Would have any other Republican that was running.
Trump tells that lie so convincingly that even Peter Thiel alluded that differences in handling Lybia were a reason for supporting Trump in his speech.
I think we are entering an interesting political equilibrium where we have a significant number of voters who either (a) are not truth-oriented and care mostly about the emotional vibe coming from candidates or (b) believe that candidates would be foolish to tell the truth when it would disadvantage them with type (a) voters. The more voters who fall into types (a) and (b) the less worried candidates will be about telling the truth and the eventual equilibrium is where almost all voters are (a) or (b).
I suspect we’re returning to such a dynamic? That is, this seems like the emotional variant of corrupt patronage systems from previous days.
I think our political system is already in such an equilibrium.
Why do you think there’s an equilibrium in this process?
Trump realized a huge number of voters were in (a), and Clinton realized that the best way to respond to her email problems were to tell blatant lies. (Sorry for being so political but this is my honest answer to a direct question.)
That doesn’t mean that this happens to be an equilibrium. An equilibrium suggests that a system is stable.
After reading the article of his ghostwriter I’m not sure that’s true. It seems more likely to me that Trump is a psychopath in the clinical sense who actually lies all the time and couldn’t simply switch to being truthful.
The suggestion that Clinton lied in the email scandal is also illustrative that lying isn’t something she does all the time but only when she thinks she needs to. With Trump that’s very different. Take the lie about him opposing the Lybia invasion. Would have any other Republican that was running.
Trump tells that lie so convincingly that even Peter Thiel alluded that differences in handling Lybia were a reason for supporting Trump in his speech.