Coming off the recent Republican and Democratic national conventions, campaign season is in full swing and with it, a barrage of political rhetoric from both major parties. While usually I would say I hate political rhetoric because it opens the door for politicians to essentially lie in a roundabout way, I’m finding that after the conventions, political rhetoric spewing from both candidates is actually becoming more and more difficult to disagree with.

It’s widely believed that politicians will say whatever the public wants to hear, so long as it’s going to tip the scales in their favor during in an election year. During both Republican and Democratic conventions, fact-checkers were working nonstop to spot false or misleading statements as speakers stood on stage, one by one. What they found varied between true, mostly true, half-truths, mostly false, and false information. It kills me that we need this scale of one to five “truth-o-meter” to evaluate the content of every political speech in the first place. If I were still a kid and told my parents a half-truth, I’m sure they would see it as all lie, then it’s goodbye life of childhood freedom for two weeks.