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The Prize Is Right delivers a major lesson applicable to politics.
When voters pick their desired representative from two leading opponents, they may not realize they were tricked by more than just the wonderful promises of the two politicians.
An unsuspected form of deceit took place. It is fairly easy to show, but it does require some attention to detail.
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First off, we should all know how politics is not centered around the truth; politics is centered around power, and then further out we find the varying truths.
To be most accurate, politics is about which truths are put in place and which ones aren’t.
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In the United States, political power is put in the hands of the voters first.
Yet immediately thereafter, the voters have no choice to express themselves other than through voting in a restricted voting system in which only one winner is selected per each voting district.
This voting system can take away some of the powers of the voters when the voters don’t pay attention.
- Today, the voters aren’t paying any attention to this ‘detail’
The voters are simply too busy with expressing their own political truths to…
