There's your answer
What we can do is look into our own hearts and try to be honest and sincere ourselves.
It's tough being "under" a government system. They are there to manage the country and monies given by us. But do we give them our ultimate loyalty or trust?? No. They aren't God.
I think that leaders should lead and be examples, good examples to people. I think too that they forget that they are servants first - put in office by the people for the people. When they fall, and they all do, we get to decide if they stay when we vote next time.
In the meantime, disappointment in their behavior, or feeling betrayed by their lies, or seeing them for who they really are can cloud our days, that is for sure.
We just have to keep our personal wits about us. Remember the story about the Emperor with no clothes? I keep that in mind with politicians. I'm sure there are some who are honest at the beginning and maybe even stay honest during their careers.
One last thing....it's interesting that Putin is in these lies and stories all over the world it seems. Blech.
Nothing undoes trust as much as a lie.
I hope tomorrow is a better day for you @clio :)
Thanks for your extensive comment. The next day was indeed a better day, I will write about it today in a post. And your last remark was very true "nothing undoes trust as much as a lie".