Do Voters Want An Honest President?
Let's start by being honest with ourselves. History shows that Americans have little regard for the honesty of our Presidents. We've elected a long list of consummate liars to the highest office, all of whom honed their skills over several decades with hundreds of speeches to gullible audiences.
Later this year, we will answer that question in no uncertain terms. We will chose one of several democrats to challenge a President who is the World's undisputed Champion of Liars.
The democrats will choose among of group of candidates who's truthfulness must be graded on a curve. Among that group, Bernie Sanders anchors the trustable curve by repeatedly submerging the electorate in such brutal honesty that it frightens those of us who feel comforted and reassured by Presidential lies.
Following Sanders, the honesty curve moves down by several degrees of prevarication where we find Andrew Yang, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. Then, it begins to fall at a sharper angle until it reaches billionaires who want us to believe they are "men of the people" while spending hundreds of millions of dollars conflating the truth with anything they think we want to hear.
- This year, more than ever in modern history, America's value system is on trial as we choose between a President who is constantly rewarded for his lies by capacity crowds that cheer and shout "For More Years" or, are we ready for a President who will always speak the unvarnished truth, regardless of the uncomfortable self evaluation that follows.