ITL229: Voting Decisions, Part 2: Opinions Don't Matter. THIS Matters.
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I finish up last week’s discussion on how to decide who to vote for in this year’s election.
When we vote, we generally vote based on two things:
- Perceived integrity.
- Economics
Integrity doesn’t really mean anything.
- Integrity means “capable.”
- What we should vote on is character.
People say, “I want a moral person,” but morality can be defined as simply not doing anything wrong.
- You can lie in bed all day and be moral.
- Your kid can come home from school and say, “Everyone was picking on John today, but I didn’t do it.”
- It takes character to step up and say to those bullies, “You are not going to do this anymore.”
You can walk through a forest and tell what kind of trees are above you without having to look up.
- The leaves on the ground can tell you the kind of tree, if it’s healthy, and what time of the year it is.
- People drop leaves, too.
Tune in to hear the two ways your money can be taken from you, and why “third-party purchases” are less invested in quality and price.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy, and we are back for |
| 0:17.9 | part two of our two-part episode dealing with this year's election cycle. |
| 0:24.1 | And a lot of people have been asking Andy to weigh in, to give his opinions and his perspective on what we should be looking for and expecting from our elected officials. |
| 0:35.6 | If you missed our first episode from last week, make sure to go back |
| 0:39.8 | and listen to that. Andy laid a great foundation for this topic and today's episode is going |
| 0:46.5 | to pick up where last week left off. So if you missed last weeks, go back and listen to that |
| 0:51.6 | and then come back and join us here today. |
| 0:55.0 | All right, Andy, let's jump back into it. |
| 0:57.2 | Okay, so think about this. |
| 1:00.8 | When we vote, we vote generally on two things. |
| 1:07.2 | We vote on perceived integrity and we vote on economics. That's what we do. |
| 1:17.5 | Perceived integrity. We look at these people, you know, and I say perceived integrity because |
| 1:23.4 | most people don't know, don't even know what integrity is and the value that it has or whether it has any value |
| 1:32.5 | or not. |
| 1:34.1 | Because integrity doesn't really mean anything. |
| 1:38.5 | If you, |
| 1:39.0 | if you understand the meaning of the word, |
| 1:42.7 | integrity means capable. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, the bridge has integrity. |
| 1:46.8 | The bank has integrity. |
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