Political Leaders: The Skill Of Being Artifice

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Political Leaders The skill of being artifice, someone who tricks others is an essential skill, but it shouldn’t be classified as the most necessary skill needed. Many people in political theater & consumer culture tend to create lies and deceive others to gain votes or get them to buy their product.It’s an important part to the issue at hand, because lying is a main factor that the people in these kind of industries feed off of, It’s what helps them get to the top of their success. Being artifice is a huge issue, eventually all the phony actions one has done to others will hit them right back in their face even harder. Of course in some cases people get away with doing what isn’t right, nevertheless not many political leaders can get away with it. Sometimes you can play off a lie, but it’ll always come back around especially in today's society. Being artifice is just another way of people deceiving others into …show more content…

Trump is all of the things Hedges stated, Trump was so manipulative during his election. He said how he was going to do all these amazing things to make America great again. He has created so much propaganda about how great America will be after he creates many changes. Now that he is president, people have begun to realize how much of a joke his election was, because now that he is making changes to society, our country is becoming worse. There is so much hate going on recently & now people have begun to realize how artifice he has and will continue to be. Trump is a tremendous leader and example as to why I personally believe being artifice should not be your most essential skill. Consequently it’ll just create more trouble for not only the one being artifice, but those tricked them as

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