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Politicon 2

John Dickinson is fed up with political fund-raising emails. So too am I, even those from persons I tend to support. Furthermore, because I’ve chosen to contribute snall sums to a few candidates on my local ballot, I seem to get them from every candidate everywhere. A snippet:

Perhaps it’s effective, but there’s a larger point to be made about political fundraising emails: They are a bouillon cube of all that is awful about American politics — the grasping for money, the phony plays on your emotion, the baiting, and reduction of anything complex into its most incendiary form. What makes these emails bad is not the breadth of their insult, but what it says about the people who send them. Here’s the short version: They think you’re stupid.

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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    October 13, 2014 at 11:43 am

    I especially despise those with the title that they’re going to fly you somewhere to meet the President, as if you’ve already won the digital lottery.

     
  2. Frank

    October 13, 2014 at 10:15 pm

    Those just make me laugh. The ones that really irritate me have “BEGGING YOU” in all caps.

    I do what I can, which is more than most persons do. Implying that I do not do what I can is, for all practical purposes, an insult.

    Wise campaigners do not insult potential supporters.

     
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