What is worse about todays politicians, the wacko conspiracy theories about the other side, or just the constant lies?

C. The fact that they exist.

Kowtowing to political bias and ideologies, on both sides of the aisle. Politicians lying is a close second.
Speaking of conspiracy theories, you should read Anomaly sometime soon. The arctic storm front is now supposedly a Chinese government weather manipulation sanctioned by Biden. It’s really kooky.

YES !

Doesn’t the lying include the conspiracy theories?

I think the main issue is the lack of serious consequences for their lies.

Some politicians are worse than others and only by voting in the least worst at every election can progress be made through a process of natural selection. Once a sense of decency has been re established then we can begin talking politics again.

I agree with @Zaku. I think the root cause of a lot of problems we have today is that we seem to have collectively decided that truth is negotiable.

They’re all symptoms of the same disease – and it’s far worse than COVID.

The only cure is to defund the the system that rewards these third-rate con artists, and throw out the corrupt laws they’ve put in place to serve themselves.

But the doctor isn’t in, and nobody wins money betting on the courage and common sense of the average citizen.

I don’t understand it, but it seems to me that there is just an overall decline in the quality of our politicians. For me, Trump was without question the culmination of this trend in American politics, as though it’s all a contest on “how low can you go”. In the end, I despair that I am so helpless in watching the scum rise to the top, but I’ll be damned if I let anyone get away with passing it off as cream.

I think the politicians lie more than they state conspiracy theories. They allow conspiracy theories to proliferate by not speaking out against them. It’s a lie by omission in a sense.

It’s all destructive.

Both. But as David Crockett once quipped, ” Going to Congress has ruined many a good man.” And in our modern era, I’m sure it has ruined some good women as well.

“What is worse about todays politicians”
That they don’t have ethics.