It’s fucking dumb and even laughable sure, but it’s also terrifyingly efficient to pass the message: loyalty > competency, and to establish a core of brown-shirt/SS loyal fascist militia…

“lie detectors”, there is no such thing

And the ‘lie detector’ is just a myth. Even the inventor knew it didn’t ‘detect lies’.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-creator-first-lie-detectors-regret-invention-polygraph-machine-inventor-180985222/

The Republicans have an accumulative IQ of 45.