Why do so many politicians lie on their resumes?

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Deceiving with faked resumes, master's degrees that were never completed, non-existent degrees or postgraduate degrees at Harvard without having left the province of Madrid, is not a recent trend that the political class has signed up for. Titulitis , or the propensity to attribute fictitious academic merits, is a characteristic characteristic of the desire to stand out among those who do not like themselves and invent degrees that compensate for their mediocrity. This habit, so unhealthy for ethics, does not distinguish sides or colors and is common in the political class since the beginning of our not-so-recent democracy. One of the first reported cases was that of an alleged industrial engineer, with a degree in business and a master's degree in economics, named Luis Roldán , a contumacious fraud whose school record showed—no one reviewed it—that he never finished high school. We are not, therefore, facing a practice that Cristina Cifuentes invented , nor are the protagonists of the many mastergates that, since then, have come to light involving politicians of different stripes and origins. The epidemic of titulitis is not exclusive to a specific ideology (no party is free from having its curricular liars) but rather a singularity linked to a racket of perks common among those who pull the strings of power. We could consider titulitis as one more symptom of the national picaresque.


Just that we Spaniards are like that, but when this happens in another country, the politician involved resigns or gets screwed ") for which there is too much tolerance judging by how well those involved Australia Phone Number usually get off. It is unfortunate how often political parties cover up for their liars, especially if it was they—the parties—who facilitated, for example, the granting of a master's degree to someone who never went to class. In all areas there is a sector prone to boasting. They are individuals whose narcissism drives them to resort to anything (especially lies) without considering the possible consequences. That this is done by a textbook egocentric narcissist could be justified from a psychopathological perspective, but empowering someone of this caliber to exercise the noble art of politics is something that a society rich in values ​​should never allow.



The decency of politicians and their vocation to work for the community should always be above the empty words and electoral campaign slogans to which certain professionals in the res publica, both left-wing, right-wing, and turncoats of the public, have accustomed us. fickle ideology. When someone lies when presenting their curricular merits, they leave evidence of a mental imbalance that can even be dangerous in those who can make decisions with great impact on the community. From the moment a public representative (and servant) falsifies his academic achievements, he is defrauding us all, endangers credibility in the system, and questions the security that a rule of law should always inspire. If someone places more value on what “one is not” than on what one truly “ is”, he will tend to live in a fiction that distances him from reality. Therefore, to the extent that these characters are allowed to cross the limits of ethics without receiving any punishment, a social alarm due to distrust will arise. Falsifying resume data should have legal repercussions and be punished by the immediate dismissal of the liar. Those who lie on their resume can lie on anything else.