Politically Acceptable or Socially Wrong?

      Negative advertisements during elections are plastered all over the Internet and the media. Conservatives against Liberals and Liberals against Conservatives, it’s a never-ending cycle of tearing apart the actions of what each group as done during their term in government. These advertisements are not effective at all during elections, especially on me. Whenever I have seen the advertisements, I’ve just looked at how uninformed their commercials are, they will take a tiny portion of the truth and make it bigger than it really is.  The claims made are just really misinforming people that aren’t too keen about politics and take no interest in it; it targets these people who will listen to anyone or anything screaming negative comments about the parties. It in no way seems professional and it’s as if they are “playing dirty” during election time. You also never know when these advertisement’s can become too much. For example, the 1933 Chrétien attack ad during the Federal elections. The Progressive Conservative Party against Jean Chrétien who was the leader of the liberal party created the commercial. It’s often times referred to as the “face ad” but it focused on his facial deformity that was caused by Bell’s Palsy. This commercial created a lot of controversy and negative campaigning that caused many people to not vote for the Conservative party because of this.  This goes to prove that negative campaigning has no limits with some people and there is a fine line between what is politically acceptable and what is socially wrong.  In a youtube video, I was able to find the exact commercial along with some comments by Chrétien about the video itself. You can view the video just below!