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That's because politicians make the rules. The insider trading in Congress is a good example. Its almost comical the amount of obviously corrupt behavior of politicians

When you vote for someone you should make sure they are competent and trustworthy.

While you can't sue them perse, there is a way to gently remind politicians who's in charge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine

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Yeah, good luck suing a company for lying either. This is the correct answer in both cases.

In theory, that's why elections exist. You always have another chance to throw the lying bums out. Unfortunately, due to a number of factors, including partisan gerrymandering and incumbency bias, it doesn't usually work out that way in practice.

False advertising is a civil dispute between two competing businesses. You can only sue for false advertising to recoup monetary loses caused by a competitor’s false claims. As an example, you own a pizza shop and make 30” pizzas. The guy across the street who makes 20” pizzas puts up a sign that says “We have the biggest pizzas in town.” You can sue and prove they used a false claim to gain a competitive advantage. That’s what false advertising is. You as an individual or consumer can’t do shit about it.

That's mainly because companies have the power to deliver on the promises they give, whilst singular politicians cant really make everything they say come true do to the fact they're not the sole dictator

And that needs to end, or we need to ensure our education systems produce citizens with critical thinking skills. But for some reason, once side is always trying to scrap education.

Haha they arent even trying to hide it anymore its insane

All my post keeps getting banned on this sub-Reddit for “being political” just for slightly referencing world war 2 or a little bit of historic event and THIS post makes it through???

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I'm sure that if politicians weren't allowed to lie, they'd be delivering a defective product. The Smoke and Mirrors company would also appreciate a hall pass as well.

While that is sort of the intent. There is a lot of precedent for people suing for false advertising because a product was not as advertised. Companies have been successfully sued for making their burgers appear giant before.

>or we need to ensure our education systems produce citizens with critical thinking skills.

Well yes, amen to that -- but Republicans have literally campaigned and fought against critical thinking in schools. It leads to sacrilegious people.

It seems this post got banned as well.

Seems like a valid topic to discuss to me however.

It's amazing the dreck that typically passes for a "shower thought."