If Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) has his way, lying about politics will be come a crime. Oh, no. Politicians will be forced to stop speaking freely.
Gov. Inslee is calling on lawmakers in Olympia to make it a crime for "elected officials or candidates for office" to lie about election results.
"It should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results," Inslee said, according to a report from the Seattle Times. No freedom of speech is tolerated.
But what a lie is is often a matter of opinion, especially in politics. So what Inslee's proposal is that the opinion of the ruling class will be used to squelch the discussion of fact. And no one will be allowed to oppose the ruling class's version of truth.
If the authorities can define political lies, they can control 'free' speech. Inslee the Democrat has no use for the process of democracy.
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