You want your own comfort zone. That is all people want. Politicians will speak to you about how the economy is great, even when most people's pockets are empty at the end of the month. They will say the economy is improving, even if you cannot get the medication you need from the hospital or you live on a road to your house that could kill you or anyone else who travels on it. And people continue to applaud and forward these lying speeches to their friends and go so far as to defend the speakers.
What really is the truth is often the hardest pill to swallow because the truth requires you to own all of the things you have done wrong or that the guy you elected doesn't give a rat's ass about you, or that society and the system we live in today is far more broken than one or two elections could possibly fix. How many people want to carry that kind of burden around with them?
But, if the lie is easier, because the lie allows you to continue to keep your hopes up without ever acting on what you need to do to help improve your own situation, then that is why many politicians are such experts at this, because they have studied it and know that if they promise you more than you can ever receive, keep saying it, and do so with enough conviction, you will continue to believe in the fantasy versus having the hard conversation with yourself and doing what you need to change things.
What is also strange or not that strange really, is that we do this to ourselves as well, not just with political views and opinions, we do this to ourselves in regards to how we deal with relationships with others, at work, and in the way we habitually treat ourselves. We continue to pick the version of reality that requires us to do absolutely nothing.
I sometimes ask myself if I even want to know the truth anymore, or if I was so addicted to how sweet something tastes even when you I it is poison, that I just don't want to believe anything other than that. That's the prison of wanting to believe in the possibility of somethings. It's different from having hope and being optimistic.
