Why Do Candidates Acquire Knowledge?

Having knowledge is a great thing, but having the knowledge and knowing how to use is a great advantage over other people. It can make someone significantly powerful, often in many cases like this year’s presidential election. Whichever candidate is elected becomes president, which means they become powerful, however there is a way they got the voters attention in the first place. In politics there are many techniques and tactics that the politicians use to get a voter to vote for them. Candidates use their knowledge to their own benefit, they tend to misuse their knowledge to attract voters. In the book Animal Farm by the author Oscar Orwell and the 2016 presidential election, both prove to the audience that knowledge equals power by using …show more content…
Donald Trump uses this technique when speaking as well as other politicians.“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people,” ( Trump’s wall during immigration speech). Donald Trump said this during a speech, he is clearly using scare tactics to scare the people of America to believing that immigrants are criminals and that if voters vote him these criminals will not be allowed into this country any longer. He scares people into believing that they must vote for him so he can get a wall built to keep criminals out. This tactic being used has made me realize the importance of voting because these candidates are trying to intimate the voters and some voters fall for what it is that these candidates are actually trying to portray. I now realize that some voters may fall for this tactic because they’re intimidated and believe one of these candidates will in some way protect …show more content…
" Clinton called on white Americans to put themselves in the shoes of blacks “who fear every time their children go somewhere; who have to have the talk about how to really protect themselves when they're the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with the police"(Clinton: Dallas shootings). Clinton reaches out to the voters by targeting African Americans and making sure they know that she cares and is aware of the problem. She uses euphemism to pull in African Americans to vote for her in hope that the shootings will stop. She calls on White Americans to reach out to them about the situations, to make them understand the pain it is that African Americans feel. Euphemism is another tactic that has made me realize how important it really is to vote because people are easily convinced by this, people get emotionally involved when someone understands or at least makes it seem that way. It makes people want to vote for these candidates because they believe these politicians will fix what the problem