Crises of the Republic - Hannah Arendt

There is an eternal question that is still being raised by thinkers, intellectuals, philosophers, and especially politicians of all stripes, and it is that there is truth, or rather integrity, sincerity and uprightness in politics? Everyone denies it to the extent that lies, falsity, and slander have all become one of the features and advantages of politics. It is the basis on which states and governments are built. Even the most comprehensive. This is what Hannah Arendt concluded in her book, The Crises of the Republic, which was published in the aftermath of the Vietnam War in the early seventies of the last century. And she confirmed this earlier when she said in her book The Crisis of Culture that “there is no doubt for anyone that the relationship between truth and politics is bad