Life Lessons: Political Ads

What can political advertisements teach us about life? On the surface, most political ads help sway interest towards electing someone to office. However, opponents may try to exploit the wrongs of others and have you vote an opponent instead. So what does this have to do with life? Simple- people not as educated about others are given two (maybe more than two) perceptions about someone. It is up to that person to either support a featured personality or reject that personality. Average people like you and I are treated and regarded the same way. Maybe some of us may never run for any political office, but the feeling of having our best qualities and our worst qualities and being judged for them are quite the same.

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Posts under the "Life Lessons" label is a unique look at what we can learn about life through conventional (and sometimes unconventional) concepts. The main point is to offer a look at life from various arenas.

The Link Between Political Ads and Life/Society.

Because we don't know a lot about people we come into contact with, we are mostly given an immediate snapshot as to why we should care about a certain individual. These snapshots offer reasons as to why we should care about a certain individual campaigning to win the respect of others or simply to prove how amazing that person is. Especially with political ads, these people want to win your respect and help make society and life better for all with their campaigns. They want you to put your full trust into that individual to help move society in the correct direction for a brighter and happier future. We therefore often want to celebrate the positive qualities of someone. That is why we tend to love people. Just as much as there are positive qualities to someone, there are also negative qualities that ultimately paint the perfect picture of someone. We don't want to know about the negative qualities of someone trying to earn others' trust, but opponents' opposing views of someone are actually needed in helping tell the other side of the story or form the complete picture of someone trying to earn our trust. That is why for every political ad wanting us to vote for someone, there is some other political ad from opposition wanting us to vote for someone else instead of one individual based on certain claims and accusations.

No one person is ever going to be completely positive. Likewise, no one person may be completely negative. Accepting and loving someone is a combination of taking the good with the bad about someone. Someone who may have glaring negatives can improve to become a better person. Someone who may have glaring positives could all be broken down to hate if certain negatives hit the mind of some individuals. All of these things can help towards better accepting or not accepting certain individuals- just like in political ads.

Why Did I Link Political Ads to Society?

Why did I bring up political ads? If you know me, I try to stay away from issues related to government, economics, and religion because I am not educated much on these matters, nor do I try to pretend I am any kind of expert. I put up this topic because there are things about life that can be taught from something similar. Obviously political ads represent issues very important to us. Who we choose ultimately will shape our world and society for some time to come. I chose political ads for this blog post because it is one of the greatest showcases of wanting to either accept or not accept someone for their qualities. We are given a certain individual for which we know only of his/her most striking qualities. Deeper research and opinions, though, help shape a different view of someone opposite of whatever qualities are most glaring. This is much the same way that political ads try to sway your interest into choosing someone to take a certain role in office; but at the same time, you do not know the full story of someone or what someone may really be about until you learn of one's negative qualities (or what certain individuals deem as one's biggest negatives). While political ads and treating people in society offer two different levels of importance, both are similar in how we ultimately view people. When we see certain people, we have only a small idea of what a certain individual is all about. How we ultimately see people is a combination of the positive and negative qualities of someone including our own final judgment of if we are able to fully accept and admire a certain featured personality. Some people may even say, "Only God can judge me." For the most part, though, we only can love or loathe certain people based on what we are to believe as well as what is actually true about certain featured individuals.

Final Thoughts.

It is natural to judge people based on both positive and negative qualities. Whether or not you fully accept someone is your call and yours alone. Just remember that who you admire and celebrate are based on how you feel about someone and if just enough of that person's qualities are enough to make you think he/she is a great person. While average people may not be critical to consider loving or hating like with political ads, these matters are critical enough to help us determine whether we love or loathe someone. Maybe you celebrate someone despite their good and bad qualities while another person may loathe everything about that same person. You can be for, against, or neutral in regards to people. Regardless of your thoughts, it all ties into how one person is ultimately judged by society... just like with political ads.

So how should you take this topic? Simple- you are not required to agree with someone being completely positive or completely negative. We love people regardless of certain personalities and traits. No one will ever be perfect. No one may either be fully loveable. Life and society both have various elements where we love things for some reasons and loathe things for many other reasons. Life is not perfect, and society is not perfect, so why chase perfection? Learn to accept people as a whole so life and living can be prosperous and enjoyable despite peoples' qualities.





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Do you think political ads and life/society have a link? What similarities can you link between these two concepts?

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