Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. – Frank Dane
If there’s any one thing common in all the political ads appearing on TV, they’re all slick. Being so, this means they cost a lot of money, because they’re made by professional image makers. Then they’re aired over prime time in at least the 2 major networks. If a politico has more than one kind of ad and they’re run several times in one night, 7 days a week, it’s not difficult to imagine that these ads can cost a million pesos upwards!
Perhaps you may be jaded enough to say, “so what?” Well, for starters, there’s the real possibility these politicos will spend most of their time in office trying to get back what they paid for to get elected. Even if other people spent for their election campaign, won’t thay have to pay these people back with political favors and such? So, why the desire to get elected even if it’s going to cost millions? Simple answer: POWER!
It’s really not about helping their fellow man in spite of what the ads try to perpetuate. It’s simply about power.
So here’s how an elected official will make use of his time: one-third will be spent trying to get back his election expenses; another third will be spent currying political favors; and the final third will be spent kowtowing to his master, whether he be of the administration or opposition. This, in a nutshell, is the life and times of a trapo.
So, going back to the quote above, the political ads are there to collect fools. If you so believe in any of those ads, you know what you are.
