"A Politician's True Beliefs" Disclosure
by Lawrence Kadish • June 8, 2022 at 2:30 pm
Ever look at a sausage package?
How about baby formula?
A candy bar? Yogurt? Cereal?
Virtually everything you consume is obligated to have an ingredients label on it that tells you what's inside. After all, you are putting it in your body. Accordingly, long ago, Washington rightfully decreed that food processors had to truthfully and factually label their products' ingredients.
This requirement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, does not extend to politics.
A politician's true political beliefs are often hidden beneath the rhetoric of a campaign. Speech is tailored to what the crowd wants to hear rather than what the candidate truly believes. Sadly, the truth that we demand from the food on our dining room table is absent in Washington and our nation's democracy suffers as a result.
