Life is complicated. Politics and policy require attention. Sometimes, the basic truths escape, obscured by spin and a metaphor becomes the best way to boil a subject down to its essence. In that vein, I offer a few examples for the low information voters you encounter.
Dad Puts Himself First
He was your childhood hero. He always sacrificed for his family. He took pride in never calling attention to himself for the good things he did. He seemed to care more about his family than himself.
Then one day, things just didn’t seem right anymore. Dad began to get confused about facts and lash out, accusing others of being out to destroy his family. Anyone who disagreed with him was not to be trusted.
In February, Dad met a woman and talked to her for an hour or so. He didn’t talk to her again for 6 months until one day he called her. It must have gone well, since he invited her to come visit. After talking for a few hours for only the second time in person, Dad proposed and made her the executor of his will and gave her control of the family fortune should anything happen to him.
Dad said that he had some friends check her out and he knew just from talking to her that she was the one to trust with the family’s future. Even though he found out that she has some skeletons in her closet (and may be in trouble with the law), he says that his friends really like her and his family will just have to trust him, even though he seems like a different person than the one who said that he put his family first.
America, meet your new Mom:
Coach’s Greatest Victory
Coach still talks about The Play. To this day, he says it shows just how great of a coach he has always been.
It was fourth down and 6 to go to start the 4th quarter. Some said we were losing. Heck, some even said something bigger was wrong before the game started.
The team got that first down that day on a Hail Mary pass. You could say that the team surged.
Coach never put any stock in the fact that a good number of the players they faced had been paid to quit before The Play. His men played with honor, of that there can be no doubt. The score was tied and Coach puffed out his chest and mocked those who questioned his strategy.
It didn’t matter to Coach that even before the first play, half of the crowd and a brave announcer had pointed out that they were in the wrong stadium, battling the wrong team.
Coach is not bothered that somewhere in another stadium at the same time, his team had forfeited to another team by not showing up. He still talks about The Play.
Coach, meet the other team: