B. U. G. S.

NEVER trust a person who uses the word “Liar” a lot.

I have known tens of thousands of people. My livelihood depended on knowing people. This is one rule I learned and this is one rule everybody is high-level politics knows.

A lot of people talk about how politicians lie. The fact is politicians lie to THEM. That is because they elect politicians who lie to them.

So if a politician sees a blond girl and a black guy, he will swear to everybody that it doesn’t bother him in the alightest . The voters will reject any white man running for public office who admits that he has a normal guy reaction to that.

Or anything else.

In talk asessions at bars or after work, when abortion is mentioned, almost everybody in professional politics wsill tell you it is not an issue they care much about.

But nobody will elect somebody who admits that this is an issue we wold rather not deal with.

I could give you more examples that you already know about, but the point here is that people elect politicians who lie to them, and they will not elect someone who does not swear to a lie. Then they get a kick out of being resentful about the fact that this guy they elected lies to them.

But you would be astonished at how honorable people really engaged in high-level politics are.

One of the t hings a staffer has to do on Capitol is “call the list.” If your boss has sponsored legislation and it is about to the reach the Floor for a vote, you know how most people will vote on it. Obviously, “the list” you call is members whose vote is not predictable.

You get a staff member. He either knows how his boss will vote or he says, “I’ll ask him.” He doesn’t guess.

In hardball politics your word is your only stock in trade.

Voters DEMAND to be lied to. They either like it, as when a white man says he has no gut reaction to a black guy in a backwards baseball cap and a beautiful blond, or, if the politician lies on an issue, the voter forgets about it by the next week, much less the next election.

So the saying is that a year is forever in politics.

But not in REAL politics. If you tell someone calling hte list your boss is going to vote aye and he votes nay, they will NEVER forget it. That’s why they say, “I’ll ask him.”

If they were talking to a voter, they would, “He’s on your side.” You NEVER do that to a pro without paying for it big-time.

Why? Because the word goes around that you LIED. LIE is a BIG word in big-time politics.

This is not just true in politics. I remember an instance where a man where a guy was talking about his house. He was talking about how much his house was worth. The man he was talking to said it was worth a million at least. He said, “Hell, I’ll sell it to you right now for half a million.”

The guy took him up on it.

He then said, “Look, I’ll you a hundred thousand right now to forget I said that.”

He had to sell his home to the man for half a million. And this was many years ago, when we would be talking five million right now. These guys were in the big time, and in the big time, in some fields, which is why I am not specifying the field they were in, your word is everything.

If you are a small-time person whose word means little, the word “liar” has no great important. It is a synonym for “mistaken.”

Such people are the reason the adjective “mean,” which means “little,” has come to mean someone who is cruel. “He’s mean dude” means he is a cruel person who has no class at all.

But this is not theoretical, it is practical. If you do not learn that a person uses the words “lie” or “liar” a lot has no word word worth giving you, you will pay for it enormously.

NEVER trust anyone who uses the words lie and liar freely.