Well, I don’t have a study backing me up, but in my experience, promising what you can’t deliver often results in being called a liar.
I really don’t know why “other candidates do it” would be an excuse. The whole pitch for voting for him is that he is supposed to be better than the other candidates. Seems like whataboutism.
It’s not really about how politics work. It is about how human minds work. The fact that making empty promises and then excuses is more effective than being honest shows one of the reasons why democracy isn’t a good system (although it may currently be the least bad).
And just accepting the lies probably makes it worse.
You might as well just not vote at all because not a single president will ever keep every campaign promise they make. Ever. You don’t have to like it but that’s reality and the only reason to be mad about it for one specific candidate over another is personal bias.
Obviously everyone should vote but unless you’re new to all of this you should already know to pick your battles. If campaign promises weren’t kept you should research it and know why before you complain about it.
I get what you’re saying on principle, but the reality is that the world does not work like that. There’s a reason populism is often a quick way to get to power, because you just promise whatever people want to hear so you could be elected. People don’t vote based on logic, people vote based on emotion, which means people don’t consider what is realistic, they consider what speaks to them.
Well, I don’t have a study backing me up, but in my experience, promising what you can’t deliver often results in being called a liar.
I really don’t know why “other candidates do it” would be an excuse. The whole pitch for voting for him is that he is supposed to be better than the other candidates. Seems like whataboutism.
Amazing how every sentence you said has its own bad premise and a skewed conclusion.
Don’t ask - I will not elaborate.
Someone just learned how politics work! Big day for you, huh?
It’s not really about how politics work. It is about how human minds work. The fact that making empty promises and then excuses is more effective than being honest shows one of the reasons why democracy isn’t a good system (although it may currently be the least bad).
And just accepting the lies probably makes it worse.
You might as well just not vote at all because not a single president will ever keep every campaign promise they make. Ever. You don’t have to like it but that’s reality and the only reason to be mad about it for one specific candidate over another is personal bias.
Obviously everyone should vote but unless you’re new to all of this you should already know to pick your battles. If campaign promises weren’t kept you should research it and know why before you complain about it.
Who says I am mad about it for one specific candidate? That is your bias showing there mate.
Excuses like roughly half of Americans oppose it and are shitheads?
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/22/americans-overwhelmingly-say-marijuana-should-be-legal-for-medical-or-recreational-use/
88% support legalization of marijuana, hell if you expand that to all drugs, 55% still support the decriminalization of all drugs
https://www.cato.org/blog/poll-55-americans-favor-decriminalizing-drugs
Only half are shitheads? (suprised pikachu)
On a more serious note: That would be a very good excuse if that wasn’t obvious already when he was making promises.
If his campaign promises had been worded as “we’ll try to do blank”, people would have criticized that, too.
Yeah, by dumb people. Sad state of events that the whole society is now being built around appeasing dumb people.
Appeasing dumb people isn’t a new thing.
Mistreating vulnerable people isn’t either.
I get what you’re saying on principle, but the reality is that the world does not work like that. There’s a reason populism is often a quick way to get to power, because you just promise whatever people want to hear so you could be elected. People don’t vote based on logic, people vote based on emotion, which means people don’t consider what is realistic, they consider what speaks to them.
You say it as if it was a good thing and not something we should strive to change.
What gave you that impression?