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Truth in politics

Introduction

Nowadays, people often hear the word 'post-truth' with politics as to describe situation when statements by politicians lack of actual links to evidences, facts and truths. The Oxford Dictionaries web pages define 'post-truth' as "Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief." and as their usage was at its peak, the Oxford Dictionaries decided 'post-truth' as the word of the year. Hence, recently, it is possible to preselect any available data to come up with desired conclusion. This has significant effects on democracy as it can misinform people without noticing and, thereafter, lead people to vote on false data. In addition, the word democracy is originated from Greek words ‘demos’ and ‘kratia’. Often, ‘kratia’ connotes power and ‘demos’ means people. Thus, democracy signifies ‘rule by the people’ yet ‘demos’ also has the meaning of ‘mob’ which illustrates that politics can be led by the majority of ignorant people. Therefore, the rule of ignorance and so called 'post-truth' in politics is perhaps inevitable and it has definitely been questioned whether the factual truth is more significant than "feel true".