Take former president Barack Obama, for example, he said that he will come to common terms with Russia and it will happen no matter what. Years later, Russia and America are not as strong of allies as Japan and America. Also, during the most recent campaign Hillary Clinton had lied straight to her audience and hid from the public basically. She had her own secret email server back when she was secretary of state. There are other times she had changed her position from her original opinion on a topic, just to please the voters and get her into office.
Some people may say that artifice is not the most essential skill to have in politics because the person is lying to their audience. However, most people have lied to someone in their life to persuade or impress them such as exaggerate a story or tell the story a different to make them agree with you. Overall, people have lied sometime in their life to someone to try and direct someone else’s opinion on the issue at hand. Unfortunately, deception cannot be avoided, it is a way of life in the modern