Courtney Zehring

Here’s the blunt truth behind why the “free Friday pizza” candidate always disappoints:

Everyone remembers the candidates running for student body president who would say, "If elected, I will provide free pizza every Friday to the whole class." And everyone would cheer, they would get elected, and the pizza would never materialize.

Sounds familiar when observing our local and federal elections these days. They’re selling fantasy, not leadership.

The “free pizza” promise is the student government version of empty populism—it sounds great, everyone cheers, and no one stops to ask who’s paying for it or how it’s supposed to happen. Once elected, the candidate runs into the boring but real world of budgets, rules, and logistics. They realize they don’t control cafeteria co

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