Sylvia Clare recently wrote: "In some countries (e.g. Switzerland) it is illegal to mislead your voters knowingly in any way at all and all elections or referenda are invalid if there are provable falsehoods within the information given upon which people make their decision to vote. It is my thought that this should be a universal or international law for all leaders." https://medium.com/mindfully-speaking/leadership-with-the-dharma-7886d0e80814

I've written several times that we must get the lying out of the US political arena--it's ridiculous that one can't lie in a gum commercial but lying is not banned in political commercials. "Many believe that the root problem with our political system is money and if Citizens United is overturned all will be well. Money was affecting politics long before Citizen’s United. That decision just provided an amplifier for the dissemination of propaganda, disinformation, outright lies and deceptive presentation of facts. Confirmation bias cannot be cured.

I wager that while many expect a politician to lie, that confirmation bias is particularly impactful on elections because most do not know that the false advertising laws do not apply to political advertisements. It is beyond absurd that one can be deceptive in a political campaign advertisement but not in an advertisement for a pack of gum. I am sure “Money” created the exception."