Lies Destroy Legitimacy
The more a government lies the more it undermines its own legitimacy. To the degree a government lies, to that degree it is illegitimate. Liars need to create ever greater lies to sustain their previous lies. Every day a growing number of people know that their government lies to them on every issue. There are only two ways for the government to respond to this — either collapses and allows a new government to form (and this capacity is not…