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It's a pretty typical political commercial, it goes like this:

The politician is in the background working on an old truck. The politician's son, in his 20s, is in the foreground- "My dad's driven this truck forever! He changes his own oil too!"

Politician says, "Yep! Just trying to save some money..." And then the commercial goes on to say how this guy has saved tax-payers money (not true) and should be reelected.

On the surface, typical election season commerical.

Now here's my analysis about why it's so out of touch-

My immediate thought was- Why are you bragging about saving money changing your own oil, rather than making a commercial about supporting a local business? We, the voters, know how much you make as a Congressman. So instead of using your ample salary to fold back into your community, you're pocketing and not throwing some business to a local business. This is the commercial I would have made.

Congressman and mechanic are in the background looking at the engine of an old truck, maybe with cups of coffee. Congressman's son is in the foreground- "My dad's driven that truck for as long as I can remember! He's also brought his to Mechanic Joe's shop for just as long. He knows how hard it is to run a small business!

Cut to Mechanic Joe- Joe talks about how loyal a customer Congressman is and how the policies he's voted for help small businesses.

Cut to Congressman talking about how the other guys don't support small business like I do!

The of course it ends with Congressman, son, and mechanic standing together. Congressman says, "We have to take care of our community as well as Mechanic Joe has taken care of my truck, because we'll pass it along to our children." And then he hands the keys to his son.

I'm fascinated with the amount of times I hear, "You're can do that!" "Can you do that?" "I didn't know you could do that!" "In [home country] you couldn't do that." And it's things like having chicken for breakfast or buying a big box of cereal or eating an ice cream cone while walking down the street. I watched a guy from Australia say like 7 variations of, "Can you put syrup on waffles?" There was a German man, visibly unsettled when told that Waffle House serves breakfast 24/7.

Now could these be overreacting for views,l? Absolutely. But it has brought on discussions of these "rules" cultures or societies have that have no real purpose. The thing it's brought into relief for me is that sure the U.S. has customs, but not rules. If I tell people that I had leftover spaghetti for breakfast, I might get weird looks, but I won't be told that I "CAN'T" do that.

My hypothesis would be that the U.S. American philosophy of "you can do whatever you want if you accept the responsibility" comes from being a nation of immigrants broke the "you can't do that" rules, just by leaving.

I'd be interested to see if Canada, Mexico, Central, and South American countries are more like the U.S. or Europe in that respect too.

I know that there are complex philosophies, psychologies, religious beliefs etc.