if a candidate tells you he supports immoral policies, the chances he will vote for moral ones is less likely.
This.
I honestly don’t understand how some people seem to look past what
policies promoted reveals about a person’s character.
Like, surely the policies someone promotes, reveal more about their character than whether they have palace-approved table manners.
Even something like Candidate A being once-married-with-kids doesn’t particularly tell me much about their character. Sure, it’s
possible they arrived at this externally wholesome circumstance through deeply held religious convictions… but it’s also possible they just fell into whatever the cultural norms of their time were, and never faced particular temptation to do something else. It’s possible their character is the same or worse than the thrice-divorced politician known for calling upon prostitutes, but through sheltered circumstances they just haven’t happened to act out this inward character in a publicly obvious way.
So the shallow surface stuff just doesn’t significantly differentiate between politicians, for me. The veneer, the table manners, the cozy picturesque private life appearance… That stuff only factors in (if at all)
after more significant indicators of character-as-relevant-to-performing-job-X-for-optimal-outcomes.
And no matter how shiny someone’s ‘character’ seems, if they
promise an outcome that’s the
opposite of what I want, I’ll vote against hiring them.
