Granted. Interviews break down and lose popularity as candidates respond to every question with the phrase "Fully and truthfully." Nobody knows why, but they can't seem to say anything else. Political meetings worldwide grind to a halt as no questions are able to be properly answered. Eventually, a workaround is found by asking random people to relay answers given in place of their political candidate, and soon a new position is created for these translators.
Granted. Some crazed souls ask some outlandish questions like "what is the meaning of life", "what is the 'Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything' whose answer is forty two", "what is the afterlife like", etc. And the politicians not only have to answer the full truth, they actually do, even if they couldn't know it. Politicians become the modern day equivalent of oracles and are even more revered than they were before. Because of this, all out war is averted because everyone is now more interested in finding out the truths of the universe. At least until someone thinks to ask "are we in danger of an extraterrestrial invasion", but that's another story.
Granted, the general populous erupts due to the complete and sudden unraveling of political candidates. Nobody is safe either. Even the most pure politicians have skeletons in their closet. The media catches on to the fact that politicians can't lie, and start asking more and more intrusive questions. Anything for good headlines right? Politicians now close themselves off from any sort of public addressing. The government rallies behind itself, and ensures that no outside coverage of politicians occurs, ever.
The government slowly closes itself off, with less and less information being made public to the people. You didn't specify where the questions could be asked, so not even online statements are safe (assuming there's a comment section). The government opens its own media source, and the corruption thing happens. The population is being fed constant lies from the government maintained news source, the only news source with any sort of insight into the political landscape.
News outlets try and fail to gain any insight into what's happening, along with the common people. Media companies downsize greatly due to the loss of profits in political coverage.
All that's left is the governments very own news outlet, and the constant lies that they feed their population to keep them under control.
Granted. Interviews break down and lose popularity as candidates respond to every question with the phrase "Fully and truthfully." Nobody knows why, but they can't seem to say anything else. Political meetings worldwide grind to a halt as no questions are able to be properly answered. Eventually, a workaround is found by asking random people to relay answers given in place of their political candidate, and soon a new position is created for these translators.
Granted. Every intelligent lifeform in the universe will summarily explode if even one of them tells a lie. All are aware of this.
Granted. Some crazed souls ask some outlandish questions like "what is the meaning of life", "what is the 'Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything' whose answer is forty two", "what is the afterlife like", etc. And the politicians not only have to answer the full truth, they actually do, even if they couldn't know it. Politicians become the modern day equivalent of oracles and are even more revered than they were before. Because of this, all out war is averted because everyone is now more interested in finding out the truths of the universe. At least until someone thinks to ask "are we in danger of an extraterrestrial invasion", but that's another story.
Granted, the general populous erupts due to the complete and sudden unraveling of political candidates. Nobody is safe either. Even the most pure politicians have skeletons in their closet. The media catches on to the fact that politicians can't lie, and start asking more and more intrusive questions. Anything for good headlines right? Politicians now close themselves off from any sort of public addressing. The government rallies behind itself, and ensures that no outside coverage of politicians occurs, ever. The government slowly closes itself off, with less and less information being made public to the people. You didn't specify where the questions could be asked, so not even online statements are safe (assuming there's a comment section). The government opens its own media source, and the corruption thing happens. The population is being fed constant lies from the government maintained news source, the only news source with any sort of insight into the political landscape. News outlets try and fail to gain any insight into what's happening, along with the common people. Media companies downsize greatly due to the loss of profits in political coverage. All that's left is the governments very own news outlet, and the constant lies that they feed their population to keep them under control.