Presidential election

            In Chapter 4 and 9,  In Amusing ourselves to Death, Postman talks about political candidates and how everything is an act to give us a good impression.This led me to reflect on our current  presidential election, and made me  wonder if the way the candidates portray themselves politically  is their true reality? Due to some of the things that have taken place in the election , I find it hard to believe that some of the stuff that our current nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have said will take place is they're elected.Trump is a proud arrogant man  with no filter who attracts a lot of attention to himself on social media , right now he promises to build a wall , lower tax rates, ban foreigners , make abortions illegal, and etc. Doing all of this while  “making America great again.” Clinton, on the other hand, is an ambitious woman that is old fashion ,she promises to lower taxes , expand background checks to more gun sales,and offers citizenship to immigrants, which she claims will “make us stronger.” Both of the nominees have good expectations to change America , which is fantastic and makes them look good on television which gets back to us the audience. What a lot of people fail to do is question the promises they have  made , since  presidents before them had made some of the same ones , but got denied  by the system making them fail. The system being the house of representatives, not allowing all of the president's promises to be granted.  So I ask you this, how does one select a president  when we're not sure of what laws will be passed?