You’ve heard of trunk or treat, right? The concept of gathering a bunch of cars in a parking lot and having children going from car to car collecting candy. Your brain might have screamed, “What?” After all, TRAINING children to go to unfamiliar cars to get candy from unknown adults…Had to be a joke, right? It’s no joke and as Halloween nears you see the signs again—the idea is sticking.
It’s similar to how I felt about Obamacare when it was uncovered, “Surely, we won’t buy into this,” after all TRAINING people that being forced to purchase health insurance that is premised on us paying more and disguising this forced tax as a good thing by throwing in free checkups, we wouldn’t be that dumb. At the very least certainly we’d know that you don’t have to threaten people buy in or else if something’s a good idea.
Though fewer than half of us like Obamacare, similar to Trunk or Treat, ‘tis the season for seeing ads for both.
If you participate in Trunk or Treat, we know why you like it—Someone else is doing the work and all you have to do is drive and show up and the prospect of getting Halloween over with by going to a designated spot at a designated time and letting your kids walk in a confined area collect candy is more important than thinking through what you’re modeling for your children—Going from car to car of strangers in response to the lure of candy.
Same with Obamacare fans who rely on a single feature of the Act to defend it instead of confessing that it’s a tradeoff at its best often with the false “progress” of exchanging sufficient coverage for needed medical treatment for free checkups. It was EASIER to believe the illogical promises of the President rather than read the ACT or expect our Congresspeople to do so. Never mind that it was premised on the Republican language of “SKIN IN THE GAME,” and the Democrat language of “SHARED RESPONSIBILITY” both meaning the same thing that we were opting into paying more and getting little to nothing in return in order to save GOVERNMENT money.
Both are examples of years-long efforts to make silk purses out of sow’s ears, they’re still pig not silk. Regardless of how entrenched the concepts of Obamacare or Trunk or Treat get in our cultural life the sheer stupidity of both ideas should not be ignored.
