Challenge #01963-E139: Like Fresh Air
"The blind shall walk and the deaf shall see - if you vote, if you vote for me!" Song lyrics came to mind as an election year looms. -- Anon Guest
[AN: Nonny, I scoured the internet, but I could not find that song you referenced. Help me out?]
Dani had to admit, it was a nice musical number. And the razzle-dazzle was sufficiently razzle-y and dazzle-y. Except... She had a few questions. "Uh. I'm pretty sure that blind people could always walk? And deaf folk could see? I mean, that's usually the norm. There's outliers and everything..." She'd almost derailed herself. "Don't you mean the blind will see and the deaf will hear?"
Potential Senator McKridi looked her dead in the eye and said, "Madam, I prefer to make promises I can keep."
And Dani mentally rewound all of his platform. Then announced, "You didn't promise to do anything at all, really."
"Easy enough to deliver," breezed McKridi. "You and I both understand that the course of politics is full of pit-traps and other obstacles. Including members of the opposition who would stop me in my goals, not because they oppose those goals, but would rather it was them doing them."
"Well, yes, but... What are your goals?"
"Summarised? A better tomorrow. Would that I were unopposed, I would stabilise the economy and banish the myth of the welfare queen, so that those who were in need could actually get support. I can only hope to unriddle medical care so that those who are helped can afford that help. To re-organise school funding so that the districts that are overlooked are renewed and every child has a chance. But I am not unopposed. I have the loud and the ignorant to combat. And therefore my only hope is to bedazzle them with bullshit until it's far too late for them to stop me."
It was quite a stance. An honest politician. People like Dani would vote for him for the novelty. People not like Dani would vote for him because his promises sounded wonderful and they just didn't understand honesty or the truth he told.
His fellow party members still believed they had to lie to get in. They had yet to learn that the trick was telling the truth in the right way.
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