Advertised Deals

Anthony Bialy
4 min readJun 20, 2022

Write your dear government a slogan as your patriotic duty. Americans love being told they aren’t bright enough to realize their decisions and money hold them back. Needing salesman to make the case for mandates is a troubling sign both for the invasively shaky programs themselves and the functionality of simple transactions. Their lack of understanding about the latter leads to the former, so at least their universe is self-contained.

Advertising copy takes more work than a worthwhile product, at least if you’re trying to sell trash. The unjustifiably cynical think slick salesmanship is all success requires, which is another reflection of why they’d last for seven minutes in business. An audience spending its own funds won’t try a crummy product a second time even if the jingle is so irksomely memorable that it crowds addresses and birthdays out of one’s brain. Product awareness is just another way they don’t grasp how the private sector functions.

Joe Biden inspires by learning to speak in entire sentences after brushing each and every one of his own teeth. It might be worse to pretend he’s still clear enough to be responsible for what he thinks.

The last official Democratic president at least made people enduring his awful ideas feel like they were enjoying suffering. Barack Obama’s deputy is so poor at selling that he can’t even convince people that free stuff is worth the cost. It’s easy to see why the all-time conman has spent zero percent of his life working to produce anything valuable. Some jerk in a factory or store acts all important just by virtue of peddling something people want.

It’s hard to be sure how we’re being manipulated. Knowing it’s happening is the only obvious bit. Americans wondering if their lawns are edible aren’t quite being made to feel like everything is pleasant. Marks have just been set up for a letdown which can only be assuaged by relinquishing more natural rights to the Department of Transportation. A mission statement might have brought our saviors clarity. But there’s no need to plan how to please customers when you can force them to participate in a twisted take on commerce by law.

International embarrassments result from villains rampaging despite or because of presidential coddling. Saving ire for successful Americans is just another tough sell. Your dear incumbent is obsessed with restricting your behavior whether you want to pack heat or buy what you wish with money you earned and then keep. The few of us who do succeed despite overwhelming restrictions are to be punished for the privilege by having their fortunes seized to fund daft scheming.

A president who can’t remember how shoelaces work occasionally has memories of dreaming to vanquish your rights. Perhaps he was never sharp in the first place. The nursing home escapee is going to inform Americans just how stupendous having their rights confiscated will be for their material and spiritual well-being. The nation’s rulebook was written by white men almost as old as Biden and thus should be violated for equality. Disregarding the Constitution at every opportunity is a popular hobby with those who feel executive orders reducing prices are immutable.

It’s not just advertising that makes us rubes want to fill our dwellings with products. Liberals who see humans not smart enough to work for government as saps think manipulation is easy. Vendors have to present a good product. Voting is easy with dollars. Commercials are more effective if you already want the subject. Unlike Washington, sellers can only trick you into buying something dumb once.

People buying what they choose from a range of items with their own earnings are rubes, according to entirely wise judgmental types who fall for promises of unlimited free health care and college from the entity that is going to make roads drivable once the next trillion bucks of infrastructure spending is shredded and packed into potholes. Getting the word out differs entirely from trying to hawk something that you must buy by presidential command.

You don’t even need an invasive melody to show why free exchange is preferable. There’s a rather obvious difference between informing consumers about something they might enjoy enough to voluntarily purchase and forcing a captive audience to participate. It’s undoubtedly a sign a service is desirable when the threat of legal punishment can’t convince involuntary market patrons to participate. The worst sorts of executives also don’t grasp how something worthwhile could be voluntary, so why start being inconsistent now?

Convincing locked-in timeshare presentation attendees that programs in which they must participate are terrific reflects ideology a bit too perfectly. Compulsion fans don’t trust markets, as they think everyone but them is incapable of calculating costs and benefits. Crummy slogans result from lack of competition.

Cynicism doesn’t make pretend budgets add up. Democrats invariably use terms like “the masses” to refer to those they view with condescension. Looking down upon both those creating desired products and the purchasers is their way of treating both sides equally.

Why won’t you idiots do as you’re told? Derision at an audience that won’t make one choice to stop making future choices is the default reaction for the bossy. Advertisers know better than to talk down to those they’re trying to convince to make purchases. Government can’t match the private sector even at persuasion despite coercion.

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