In other words, the emotional and psychological competence of the world's most powerful "leader" is decided by a lay electorate, culled from practiced readings of the words of others, drilled responses, rehearsed mannerisms, selective pandering, and myriad other theatrics his/her image makers connive.
They claimed that admitting lying to the electorate is truth-telling: "Trust me.
He added: "There is no greater sin that an MP can commit than to lie to his electorate".
Besides the two candidates, who are out to destroy each other, there is a departing president (Mr. Durning), who makes a case for the honorability of lying to the electorate, be it about his terminal medical diagnosis or the fact that he does not believe in God.
In the lead up to the 2013 Australian federal election, which resulted in a change a government, Labor candidate for Perth, Alannah MacTiernan, accused the then-opposition's candidate of lying to the electorate over their commitment to the upgrade.
Because when they claim that they can vanquish Islamist terrorism quickly and effectively, they either don't know what they are talking about, or worse, are willing to lie to the electorate to come to power.
So he strode on, lending his name to the Leave campaign, lying to the electorate, starting fire after fire as an improbable Foreign Secretary, stabbing his beleaguered, incompetent Prime Minister in the back; and, last week, finally and explicitly showing his true colours as an opportunist bigot.
And, in true elitist fashion, he called for raising the retirement age to age 70, because "how many times will you really want to take that trailer to the Grand Canyon?" Moreover, even as he was lying to the electorate about protecting Social Security, he selected Mike Pence as his vice president.
His job was to prove, by means of genealogy, that the princely house had its origins in the House of Este, an Italian princely family, which would allow Hanover to lay claim to a ninth electorate.
IN OCTOBER 2007 Gordon Brown decided against a snap election, ostensibly in order to lay his vision for Britain before the electorate in a more leisurely manner.
The duchies included most of the present-day North Rhine-Westphalia that lay outside the ecclesiastical territories of the Electorate of Cologne and Münster.
