We know what happened in 2016 when Facebook became the Wild West of false and misleading stories and ads planted by a foreign government. This is why it is so important that we protect the truth, and prevent politicians and other, possibly nefarious, actors from posting false and misleading ads on social media.

Even the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) states on their website:

When consumers see or hear an advertisement, whether it’s on the Internet, radio or television, or anywhere else, federal law says that ad must be truthful, not misleading, and, when appropriate, backed by scientific evidence.

The Federal Trade Commission enforces these truth-in-advertising laws, and it applies the same standards no matter where an ad appears – in newspapers and magazines, online, in the mail, or on billboards or buses.

If the FTC applies these standards to products, the same standards must be applied to political ads, no matter where they appear.

The president’s constant lying is not only impacting how American citizens relate to our government, it also impacts our foreign relations. How can any nation, friend or foe, take him at his word? If he threatens a rouge nation with sanctions, or military force, they are not going to believe him. If he offers aid, how can they trust the aid will arrive, let alone keep coming? How can our allies expect us to honor our commitments with the constant stream of lies he tells? How can any nation ever expect to negotiate in good faith with a person who lies as much as Trump does?

If you are a parent you do your best to teach your children not to be habitual liars. Now everyone tells white lies from time to time—and to expect anyone to be completely honest at all times is really an unrealistic expectation. That being said, there is a difference between that and what we see come out of the president’s mouth, his Twitter feed, and his staff’s responses. He is a habitual liar, he lies so much, and so often that I doubt he can even recognize what is real and what is a lie anymore.

When this is all over, and Trump has gone down in the annals of history as the worst U.S. president of any era and his sycophants and followers distance themselves from him, it is my hope that after this national nightmare is over, that we can begin to hold our leaders to a higher standard; That we will no longer have to tolerate a leader who habitually lies, and just flat-out makes up stories. That someone who is unqualified as Trump was and is can never reach the Oval Office again.

They will do everything they can do to save a cluster of cells, going so far as to call it life—yet, once born, those babies are on their own. They will protect the unborn, but are happy to send that child to war at age 18. Of course, that is just the tip of the iceberg.

In their quest for power, those so concerned with declining morals have gone out of the way to elect an immoral man into the highest office in the land.

An office that should be held to the highest of standards is now occupied by a man who is morally and ethically bankrupt. The party that impeached a president for lying about a blowjob now refuses to do anything to stop a president who as of April 29 of this year, per the Washington Post, has lied 10,000 times. He has, per the Mueller report, obstructed justice. His attempts to obstruct justice are laid out in this linked article from Lawfare so that anyone can see what he did was illegal. But so far, as of this writing, only one Republican congressman has come out in favor of impeaching Trump.

Of course, his lying is just the beginning. He has cheated on all of his wives. We know of at least one time where he paid off a porn star to keep quiet about an affair. It is almost a certainty that he has paid off others for their silence.

If America is in a moral decline, it is purely because those on the political right, those who claim the moral high ground, are the least moral people in the country. They chose hate over love, they chose lies over truth, and they chose the most immoral man in the country to lead our nation.

In the Federalist Papers, Federalist 51 is quite clear that each branch of government is equal, and that each branch shall hold the other branches accountable.

TO WHAT expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the Constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.

Almost every day Trump tweets out some inane nonsense proclaiming his innocence and whining about ongoing investigations. The worst thing this lying conman could have done was run for public office, as it was virtually guaranteed that all of his misdeeds, financial crimes, and dalliances would come to light. But the Republican majority stayed silent, or even defended Trump.

Now that the Democrats have the majority in the House, at least one part of our government is performing the oversight of the executive branch that has been sorely needed. The House Oversight Committee panel questioning of Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen was just the start. From that we now know with absolute certainty, with the evidence Cohen provided, that Trump cheated on his wife with a porn star, and then paid her off to prevent that news from getting out during the election.

Remember: The party that impeached a president for lying about a blow job seems to be okay with this.

“I think most of us have a concern anytime you have a president who is trying to work through some very personal matters. I honestly think this president loves his family, and I think it has as much to do with trying not to have public discussions about something that is, for him, a private matter that he didn’t want to have discussed with his family.”

“Every time I think about this, I think about that particular issue because I think he really does care about his family, I think he loves his family, and I don’t think he wanted his family to go through this.” Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D. said when asked in an interview with CNN Wednesday if he was "OK" with Trump paying hush money to a porn star while in the White House.

Maybe it is just me, but if you love your family, you do not cheat with a porn star shortly after your wife gives birth to your son!

At a time when we should be focusing on the real issues of the day, like climate change, we have to deal with a lying, two-bit conman who throws Twitter tantrums. Meanwhile, his sycophants do all they can to undermine anything the Democrats do to make life better for all Americans. The Green New Deal is not going to take away hamburgers, airplanes, cars, or anything else they have scared the right into believing.

Do the Republicans think that we do not see what they are doing? Do they really think we are this fucking stupid?

It is time for our elected Democratic representatives to stand up to their Republican counterparts and demand accountability, and implore them to stand for country over party. We can all see that Trump is deteriorating with every speech and tweet. Republican Party leaders should be ashamed of what they have allowed, and the Democrats need to remind them of this shame every single day until Trump is removed from office, resigns, or loses in 2020.