When you are a child, your parents will probably make some promise that will never happen. “When you are sixteen we’re going to buy you a car, so have to save up now!”
They say that when you ask for this teddy bear or that bicycle. Of course, when you are sixteen, there is no car. But by then, well, all those teddy bears and bicycles are long gone from your list of wants and if you have a good memory or they repeated it often enough, you’re going to be angry and hurt, but hey! There is NOTHING you can do about it.
When you are older, someone may say they ‘love you’ to gain sexual advantage. Once they have it, they can move on, leaving you feeling stupid.
That’s the ‘get’ when you make a promise you can’t fulfil in such a way that by the time ‘pay day’ comes, the fact it was a lie, well, there’s nothing the dupe can do about it.
Political promises always fall into that category. Some candidate will make promises, and if you aren’t bright enough to get the path to that promise…
(Imagine the kid asking Mommy & Daddy how much money they are saving for that car every week… and wanting to see the Bank Account and the deposits or the person demanding marriage before bed.)
then after you vote and that promise goes unfulfilled, there’s nothing you can do. The candidate is now the Elected whatever and you take what you get until next election.
Recently, there was an election in America. A lot of promises were made. There is no way for them to be fulfilled; save cutting taxes for billionaires and barring Muslims from Entry into the United States.
Returning jobs? Nope. Can’t do it.
The only reason this item costs $200 is because the workers who built it were paid less than $1.00 a day. Bring the jobs to the US where it’s over $7.00 U.S. an HOUR well, that item will cost $2,000.00.
So Americans will buy the Chinese knock off. Bar the Chinese imports and they will be smuggled into America.
So it can’t be done. But it sure sounded good on the campaign trail.
Very often, to get something, someone will make you a promise. Parents don’t want the child to know they are poor so claim to be saving money. The guy wants sex and can’t ask for it, so uses the magic word. Politicians find out what people want to hear and say it.
It’s all a shoulder shrug for the liar who gets what he wants, it isn’t so nice for the person who is alone crying. Or standing up a few months after the election and realising they were played.
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Yes, in childhood parents make promises with children but some of them are fulfilled and some of them are buried in the lie grave for ever due to poverty otherwise no parents make false promise with their children. Only the politicians make false promise with the mass and because their parents do not fulfilled their promises that is why they do not fulfill the public promises.
Every politician knows that the key to winning elections is to make great promises. Campaigners promise to cure the ills of society including taxes, war, government corruption, and pollution. Instead, if elected, they will bring about vast improvements in education, employment, infrastructure, and the economy.
If politicians are ever to be able to lead, there will have to be an end at some point to the negative expectancy disconfirmation effect. We have to learn to trust again. Great leaders require not only the ability to take bold action, but the willingness of citizens to allow them to try to win without having to make wild and unrealistic promises. On the morning after, it would be nice to wake up and be able to feel that whoever won or lost, the change is one we can truly believe in.
If adults become disaffected by the political process then what people fear about our society being in decline will come true. Keep a balanced but positive perspective on the democratic process for the sake of the next generation.