To: President Donald Trump, The Minnesota State House, The Minnesota State Senate, Governor Tim Walz, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Truth in Campaigning
We believe that it should be unlawful to produce a campaign advertisement of any sort that contains false information, which can be disproven with hard evidence and/or the scientific method. We believe that “the freedom of speech” should not apply to campaign advertisements, or any issue that will be presented in a public vote. Because campaign dishonesty has immediate damaging effects, the court should be obliged to grant immediate reparations to the plaintiff, amounting to the entire monetary value that was spent on the dishonest campaign advertisements, with no exceptions.
Why is this important?
With vicious political attack ads whizzing across the country, and misleading lies being spread to the voting masses, it’s no wonder that the average US American adult feels disillusioned and distrustful of most politicians. Free speech was introduced by the first amendment to the US Constitution with good reason, but the ubiquity of “free speech” should not apply to issues that people get to vote on. Specifically, “free speech” should not allow for the mass distribution of lies, when it comes to voting issues. Some would say that it is the “opposition’s” responsibility to publically identify the lies, but how is this possible, when the “opposition” is not extraordinarily wealthy, or when many voters get all of their information from a single partisan source?