I have been getting partisan emails asking for donations for as long as I can remember. That isn’t anything new. Both parties do it all the time. I get it. Campaigns cost money.
But something has shifted. Something that has genuinely gotten under my skin over the past couple of years — and I suspect I’m not alone.
I receive at least fifty emails a day asking me for money. Fifty. From the same small circle of names — the top of the ticket, the family, the inner circle. If the man had a dog, I’d be getting emails from the dog. And I want you to think about something. I cannot remember — not once, not a single time — receiving a message that told me anything at all about what they could do for me. What their plan was. Why my life would be better if I sent them twenty-five dollars by midnight.
Not once.
I won’t waste your time throwing names around because you either know what I’m taking about or your comatose.
What I do get, every single day, is this: They are evil. They are out to kill your babies. They are stealing your future. They are screwing your wife. They are driving too fast. They are eating too much of your food. That’s why your life is so bad. That’s why nothing works. That’s why you’re angry. It’s them. It’s always them.
Not a single word about what sending money would actually accomplish. Not a single promise about what gets better, what gets built, what gets fixed. Just the other side. How dangerous they are. How your only hope is to send money right now, tonight, before the deadline that somehow resets every single morning.
This has to tell you something.
A party that runs entirely on hate and fear has nothing else to offer. No vision. No plan. No positive case for why your life gets better if they win. Just the endless, exhausting argument that the other side is the enemy and only your donation stands between you and destruction.
You may not like the other sides plan, but at least they have one, and it’s not called hate.
So I’m going to do something simple. I’m going to issue a dare.
Tell me one thing. One single thing this party is offering you — for your money, for your vote, for your loyalty — other than hurting, controlling, and punishing the other side.
