Both missing the point in my opinion. Politicians have always been full of exaggeration and overly ambitious promises, while most of the time just falling short of being caught bang to rights in an outright lie. Right now we have the party who have actually governed the country for the last 9 years altering their official Twitter account to masquerade as a neutral fact-checking service and then having the cheek to deny that this was misleading. Michael Gove claimed that the only person doing any misleading was Jeremy Corbyn, who produced evidence that UK and US trade officials had met, and that every single word of the meeting had been redacted (read: covered up) by the government. Downing Street also sits on (read: covers up) the report on Russian interference which we have been told by Dominic Grieve contains shocking and extreme revelations that would certainly affect the election while the media refuse to even give it lip service because protecting their billionaire owners and editors is more important than carrying out their actual job of informing the public. It's astonishing how much people allow themselves to believe that there is still some element of doubt over what's going on here. This isn't my opinion, it's a fact, the worst part is that nobody can explicitly prove it.
10 years ago we laughed nervously at North Korea. For the last 5 years we've observed Donald Trump with a mixture of mild amusement and discomfort. You can see where I'm going with this. We aren't through the looking glass just yet, but we're far enough that it's almost certainly too late to turn back. We're way past the point where you can equate the behaviour of Johnson and his friends to "typical lying politicians". This is a different ball game.
It really is hopeless. I can't help myself from trying to convince others but the voice inside my head keeps whispering, and I know it's right, that if they don't believe it the only way is to let them wait and see.