# Political Lies and Their Impact - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117777263144153407 - Source account: [@carlosbravoreg](https://x.com/carlosbravoreg) - Source language: Spanish - Target language: English - Duration: 3:18 - Published: 2026-11-05 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact ## Transcript [0:00](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact) Politicians lie, like when they don't know their campaign promises. [0:04](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=4) Are you keeping your campaign promise not to use fracking in, uh, natural gas extraction? [0:12](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=12) I never said that during the campaign, exactly. [0:15](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=15) Hydrocarbon extraction using fracking will not be allowed at all. [0:21](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=21) Or when they say that a problem has already been solved and then it turns out it hasn't. [0:26](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=26) We've already solved the problem of the supply of medicines. [0:32](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=32) No one has said we're at one hundred percent. [0:35](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=35) Or now, with the Guadalupe Taddei scandal. [0:38](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=38) López Obrador, Sheinbaum, Morena, and their allies empowered her. [0:41](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=41) She's an experienced woman. Look at her caaareer. [0:49](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=49) She has, uh, professionalism, she's honest, she's a woman of integrity. [0:57](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=57) In April 2023, Sheinbaum said that today, the president of the INE is an honest woman. who will defend our country's democracy. [1:06](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=66) In 2024, Morena and its allies passed the Taddei law, a reform that gave her more power than any other presiding councilor. [1:15](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=75) The INE at your feet, madam. But after the scandal and her resignation, Sheinbaum is trying to distance herself. [1:22](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=82) Because now there's a campaign claiming Taddei was with Morena. [1:26](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=86) Why do politicians lie? Lisa Wedeen, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, has a theory. [1:33](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=93) It doesn't matter if people don't believe the lies, what matters is that they act as if they believe them. That's enough, because a lie, even if it doesn't deceive, has political effects. [1:46](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=106) It's a way of creating power. First, because repeating or defending a lie means subordinating one's own judgment to the word of the powerful. [1:55](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=115) The more absurd the lie, greater proof of loyalty than he demands. [2:01](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=121) Second, because insisting on a lie once it has been disproven is a show of strength, of impunity. [2:09](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=129) The message is that you can keep knowingly lying, without correcting yourself, and nothing happens. [2:14](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=134) Third, because upholding a lie turns a dispute about facts into a dispute between opposing camps. [2:21](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=141) We defend our own even when they tell falsehoods, and attack the others even when they have evidence. [2:27](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=147) The lie thus becomes a matter of political identity. [2:31](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=151) Fourth, because it is a way to intimidate. [2:34](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=154) Anyone who exposes the lies of those in power has to watch out for their attacks and smears. [2:39](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=159) They learn that speaking can be more dangerous than staying silent. [2:43](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=163) The lie raises the cost of revealing the truth. [2:46](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=166) And fifth, because the lie serves to evade. [2:50](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=170) If power can rewrite history, it can also erase its responsibility for it. [2:55](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=175) Decisions have consequences, but lies help us avoid taking responsibility for them. [3:01](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=181) In short, lies can create power, even when they fail to deceive, because they don't seek to make us give up on the truth. [3:10](https://preview.translate.mom/transcript/yLzyYeNVHATl/transcript-of-political-lies-and-their-impact?t=190) They aim to make us accustomed to the idea that knowing it is useless.