In a decision that still rankles today, the court ruled that a contract “cannot be based on an ante-election promise to voters generally by a candidate for public office, so as to give a voter a right to restrain the promiser from violating same.” Which means simply that there is no legal recourse by which the electorate can pressure a candidate to live up to his or her campaign pledges, so politicians are free to say whatever they please in order to solicit votes without any obligation to fulfill their promises once in office. And candidates apparently know this, or at least act as if they
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Hence a country of political grifters and alternative facts
