The DNC has finally broken my ability to give

[Akakoji]

73. Democratic nominees keep insulting and demeaning voters with texts, calls, and emails. They still are not list listening

I'm sure the DU control matrix will pull this post down. They seem to have developed a non-productive aversion to having truth be told one this platform. That's why I also always make a copy of anything I post beforehand.

Democratic nominees keep insulting and demeaning voters with texts, calls, and emails.

They still are not list listening. Some even use information I consider private. When someone out of the blue - at least 50 new people a day beg for money every single day - uses my first and last name along with other information, contacts me to ask for money, or claims they are introducing themselves while begging for money, I immediately got to info on my phone and block that number. Then, I delete and report the caller. I know that will NOT do anything, that the candidate most likely has contracted with a company to do this trawling, but it's a form of self affirmation for me at this point. It takes me at least 45 minutes a day to do this, as you can't just do it from one device anymore. Once it comes through any device it has to be deleted on that device. I typically use a phone, tablet, and desktop.

Besides, the carriers bill me anyway for this ongoing predation, so why would they actually do anything but ignore it? I can still see on my monthly bill the hundreds of calls and texts made by people harassing me. If you try to respond directly to them, or go to their websites to communicate with them, all you get is a form to donate money, then an onslaught of new texts and calls and emails asking for money. This even happens when you donate money to them according to colleagues that still do so.

Democrats just don't understand that people are being forced to hold their money more tightly, and that many of us are being buried alive by the GOP policies that are being instituted. They think only of themselves, and collecting money. Why would I ever believe, or even listen to anyone that comes at me in this manner? I accidentally blocked a doctor who was following up using a text based system that everyone seems to have adopted. Along with an AI based system that does not understand my responses.

Ask yourselves why I have this prepared response all set up. I'm not retyping it 50 times a day. I'm never, ever giving money to a Democratic politician again. I'll vote for them, unless they have completely worn me down when the time to do so comes around. I don't want to hear the mewling that everyone collects money this way, or that it is impossible to talk directly to each potential voter and as them for their vote and their money. Because that's a reality that exists only in their head, or the plan conconted by their handlers and campaign managers.

If anyone wants my vote or my money, they will ask for it in person. At this point, they probably have no way to even hear this feedback and declaration of agency if indeed they are trying to listen. The system didn't change. For 50 years of my life I've voted for and given money to people that asked me for it, sometime in very early morning or late hours while I was commuting to work.

Until recently, Republican have had no problems doing this. That's why they keep winning. Not because they have better policies, or even beneficial policies, than Democrats. They just make sure that people feel heard. Because in this attention driven world and economy in which people believe that being heard is a sign of support and affirmation, that's all that maters.

It's just the latest incarnation of the bread and circus form of politics that has previously been described as resentment politics. People desperately want to feel like they belong to something; that they have connected. Responding to an online or otherwise invasive communication doesn't get anywhere near there.