Policy or Personality

A poem for Presidents Day about the relative importance of policy and personality in determining how voters vote. Policy or personality? Relatively, which deserves more weight? Each can make or break a presidency, Sharing boos or kudos for its fate. In voting, one once chose which quality Demanded greater fear or hope. Of late, Electorates eschew reality, Not open to the truth of either trait. The point, instead, becomes identity, Sustaining which will voters motivate, Devouring moral ambiguity As policy and personality Yield to passion, prejudice, and hate. © by Nicholas Gordon To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/policy.html. For more poems for Presidents Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/presidentsdaypoems.html .