How to Deal With a Falsehood in Politics

It takes a lot less effort to spread a falsehood than it does to clean one up. With Medi-Scare, the lesson learnt is you've got to treat it like whack-a-mole. And that's exactly what happened in 2016. I mean, that cost us seats. There's no doubt about that. So did that falsehood change anyone's minds and went worth? No. Because they knew it was ludicrous. How could the federal government sell Medi- Scare, even if they wanted black was nothing to sell. It really did cut through. But it's also, again, this question of how do you hold people responsible? In politics, I guess