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JOCK POLITICS
Who is the most popular person at your school? Is it the smartest person at your
school ?? the President of the Math Club or the Vice President of the Science
Club or is it the quarterback or the captain of the football team?
In watching the third and final debate between the presidential candidates, I
want to encourage you to take a hard look, or in this case, a hard listen at
what is actually being said. In the past two debates, one has laid out fact
after fact to explain, as best he can, the issue at hand. Albeit, some of these
facts were embellished, even misquoted in the heat of a campaign, as it??s been
pointed out by non-partisan fact checking pundits, but 90% of his explanations
actually refer back to DATA that he puts forth into the conversation.
In rebuttal, the other candidate will answer most of the time with a ??that??s
just wrong? or ??that won??t work, it just won??t? or a bag full of one liner
clichés written by a campaign manager with no further facts to back up his
opinion. This is what I refer to as a ??pep rally candidate? ?? and I hope I??ve
just coined that term.
This is a candidate who will scare you, inspire you, rally you, make you laugh,
put down his opponent in no uncertain terms, and in the end have passed on to
you absolutely nothing of substance ?? no new data, no new information to
REASSURE you that what he just said was in fact a fact. This is a simple "go
team", wave your flag campaign and guess what ?? it??ll win this election if you
don??t start listening.
Think back to the last pep rally you were at. Your coach or the captain of the
football team came out and gave a speech to the student body. Did they tell you
how they were going to defeat the other team on Friday night? Did they go into
detail about how your offensive linemen out weigh the other offensive linemen by
25 pounds, and that your running back can run the mile 2.7 seconds faster than
the other teams? Or did they just stand there, and tell you how great you were,
how proud you should be to go to the school you??re at, what a great bunch of
young men your team has and that ??they??re working hard every day? to bring home
a win, and they??re going to bring home that win - you can count on it? How did
you feel after that speech while everyone was standing on their feet applauding?
Were you inspired? Did you trust that they were going to bring home that win
Friday night?
Do we as a country elect people of presidential standards or are we captivated
by this grand illusion? There??s a political party out there that knows how to
campaign like nobody??s business. If you??ve got a question, then they have a flat
out yes or no answer for you; that??s how they see things ?? yes or no ?? black and
white, and again, it works for them because people understand that language. But
I??m asking you to listen a little harder, ask the NEXT question, and see if
their answer still fits.
You??ll find out in years to come the world isn??t made up of yes and no, black
and white. Campaigns are made to simplify the issues down to bullet points so
voters can take it all in. Don??t let them simplify you; the world and the issues
in this campaign are far more complex than some candidates would have you
believe. These issues deserve better than a ??yes or no?; ??you agree with me or
you don??t?; ??it??s us versus them?; and ??we??re going to win it on Friday night?.
Just listen.
By Pepper Berry of Bobot Adrenaline
http://www.bobotadrenaline.com
