All of US presidential candidates, democratic and republican alike, routinely and knowingly push blatant lies as a part of their platform and nobody blinks an eye. If you went through what they say with a fine toothed comb and removed all the lies, there'd be hardly anything left. People don't care about facts. They care about how a narrative makes them feel. Sad but true.
Agree. There's purposefully lying to achieve targets, and ignorantly spreading lies that help someone in addition to lending them credibility and exposure. The latter hurts more than the former: For instance, Cristiano Ronaldo is a much bigger influencer than most Senators or even Hollywood personalities can ever hope to be. I think, people like them need to exercise great caution, if they intend to mean well and not cause harm.
While it's true most politicians lie or bend facts or report them wrongly, you can not create a false equivalence between them all. Trump lies egregiously and far more than basically any non dictatorial politician. Your stance reminds me of those who said both 2016 candidates were bad, so they didn't vote or voted for the two clown third party candidates.
The entirety of Hillary Clinton's campaign could be summarized as "it's my turn, orange man bad". I can't vote for that. In 2019 I likewise can't vote for open borders, "free money" for everyone, multi-trillion dollar ill-conceived "green deals", or "reparations", because I'd be the one paying for all this shit. Plus, _all_ democratic presidential candidates made the Charlottesville hoax the centerpiece of their campaign, so they too lie 100% knowingly about it.
