POLITICS
For They Know Not What They Do
America is in crisis because voters aren’t so much misinformed as they are completely uninformed
There was a time, at the height of my career in marketing, when I simply wasn’t engaged in politics in any meaningful way. I identified as left-leaning, meaning I had gay friends and thought Sesame Street was a good use of tax money, but honestly, it rarely came up, and I didn’t think that much about it. For a long time, well into adulthood, I was still a registered Republican because my parents had been, and that’s what I thought I was at eighteen when I first signed up. I never voted in primaries or off-year elections but usually voted for the Democrat in the general. But nothing was a given.
At the time, I was doing a lot of radio and television production and would spend days and weeks at a time, working at a post-production facility in Philadelphia, editing various videos and commercials. It just so happened that two national political operatives, one from each party, also did all their work there, and I got to know them. I saw politics as just another business trying to get its message out, like they were Campbell’s Soup or Comcast. There was a red team and a blue team, and both producers seemed sane and professional. All their candidates were saints and…
