One reason I tend to trust pharmaceutical companies more than “natural remedies” is that pharma doesn’t just promise benefits — it also lists side effects. That feels oddly honest. If you’re taking something powerful enough to relieve pain, stress, or cancer, it’s powerful enough to have unintended consequences. Vaccines are more likely than green tea to make you ache or feel sick but also more likely to protect you from nasty disease.
Which made me wonder:
What if political parties were required to do the same thing?
Imagine campaign ads that ended not just with soaring music and hopeful slogans, but with a calm voiceover:
“Side effects may include…”
Not as a gotcha. Not as mockery. Just as an acknowledgment that policies, like medicines, act on complex systems and rarely do only one thing.
What would be listed as side effects of today’s Democratic platforms?
What would be the side effects of Republican ones?
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