It is looking like telling lies is the prerequisite of becoming a politician. As a matter of fact, there is a way you will tell lies that people will start suspecting you to be a politician. How we get to this point in human history is what no one can explain.
I don't know about your country but in my country, politicians buy over media empires to sell lies and propaganda to the public... I know this is not peculiar to my country. This may be the reason there is a growing distrust between the leaders and the followers.
But is politics supposed to really be about lies? Why is the polity dominating by propaganda?
Politicians are surviving with lies. Like the latest lies in my country now is from the senators. A senator revealed or exposed that their salary foe a month is ₦21 millions and the senate President said it is for running cost for the senators.
So SERAP (Socio - Economic Rights And Accountability Project) a non governmental agency gave the Senate to tell them the running cost of the ₦21ms.