Them Vs. Us

My uncle told me a joke recently. In short, the joke involved a man who was allowed to choose whether he wanted to go "upstairs" or "downstairs" after he passed away. The man was given the chance to try a day upstairs and a day downstairs. When he went downstairs, everyone was smiling and dancing. The food was really good and everyone looked so content. Next, the man went upstairs and found things to be relatively boring in comparison to what he had seen before. So, he chose to spend his eternal life downstairs. When he got there this time, it resembled what he thought it would have before his sample visit--hell. He went to the devil and said "What is this?" This devil said, "Well, that whole nice day was just a way to hook you in. Now that you're here, you'll see things are different." In political terms, that nice day was a campaign promise that was not followed through with. The man was obviously fooled by the visual propaganda he saw and did not follow through to get the facts.