Truth-Talking

Based on the movie we watched today, a political candidate’s “truth-talking” creates the impression, to potential voters, that the candidate is trust worthy person. In the movie, when the Senator went to go to the church to give his speech to African Americans, he got asked why hasn’t any money from the federal government come to the community by an African American women. He stated that government doesn’t care about blacks and that is why they haven’t gotten any financial aid for the community. For voters, this creates a sense of trust in the politician because the voters normally get lies and deception from the politicians. They voters find it, due to the “truth-talking” behavior, that they can rely on the politician that is truth-talking to reveal the truth. In our …show more content…
Trump is trying to recreate the “American Promise” by trying to sway the rich into creating more jobs for people to have. He feels like by doing this, the “American Promise” will be allowed to reach more people. When the Senator was having a debate with the person who was running against him, he was asked about bigger companies. In which he replied basically saying these big insurance and medical company swindle you out of a lot of money. Voters will trust a candidate like this because he is telling the truth. Voters would definitely trust a candidate that would expose big companies regardless whether or not they are paying him. Trump isn’t exactly exposing big companies, but he is free to do so because he raised his own money. This connects to the “American Promise (for whom?)” because it reveals to the middle class and poor people, not just the rich, that they are being tricked for their money by these people. Now they can use their money towards thing that will benefit them more financially. Therefore, if a politician truth-talks, then their voters will raise, because voters see them as honest