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Political Science
Publisher: Finlee Augare Books
Type: Non-Fiction
Copyright: 2016
ISBN-13: 9781943080267
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
The book candidates don’t want you to see.
Candidates appeal to our emotions to get our votes but how does what they say stack up? To keep their emotional appeals simple, candidates leave out the side-effects and real costs of their plans.
Side-Effects: What Candidates Don’t Tell You cuts through the BS to take you behind the scenes to look at promises related wealth redistribution, taxes, Social Security, healthcare, depressed wages, and many other topics. Side Effects sheds light, exposes myths, examines consequences, and explores options.
Excerpt
Isn’t it about time for us to talk about issues based on facts and data instead of oft repeated mantras that take on a sacred quality? These mantras are repeated phrases that may or may not have any basis in fact or reality but tend to sway our thinking. To say “There’s no place like home” (from the Wizard of Oz) is harmless and based on valid experience. The statement that we only use 10% of our brains has been debunked, yet was the premise of a recent movie which was otherwise great fun. Political mantras, on the other hand, can be quite dangerous when they are based on false beliefs.
For those of us lucky enough to live in a democracy, we have elections every couple of years. Actually, the United States is a republic, since we elect representatives rather than have each voter show up in Washington to decide on every issue. If nothing else, there aren’t enough hotels or even barns in Washington to house everyone. In lieu of that, our representatives create laws on our behalf, which gives them considerable power over us and significant incentive to covet positions in Washington.
In anticipation of elections, candidates promise us gorgeous beaches and forget to tell us about the sharks. They know that most people just want to be left alone to live their lives without fear of interference from outsiders, neighbors or the government.
Candidates take advantage of our distraction by coming to us every two to four to six years with sound bites, mantras, and pleas to get our votes. They appeal to our emotions rather than to our intellect since that is the quickest way to our hearts. Then many return to doing whatever they planned to do, hoping we won’t peek behind the curtain to see what they’re really up to. We get climate deniers and economic deniers, both of whom deny the facts. They should be embarrassed at being exposed, yet typically they are not.
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