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Yesterday, I got one of those "opinion surveys" that's actually a begging letter. It offered three options for every question: the Republican option (e.g. Social Security should be privatized), the traditional Democratic option (e.g. Social Security should be protected), and the DLC option (e.g. younger workers should be allowed the option of personal accounts).
Anyway, in some cases, they didn't list any options that I liked, so I wrote in my own.
Then, to make sure that my response was not totally ignored, I taped two pennies to the section where you're supposed to tell how much you're contributing. I added a note saying that they weren't getting anything else until they started acting like an opposition party.
There are individual Dems that I support. When next month's money comes in, I'm going to be sending checks to a couple of individual candidates, especially local ones, who have spunk and gumption, but the national party is getting two cents and only two cents from me.
I don't know how much effect one letter like that would have, but imagine if A LOT of people did that.
I'm just sayin'...
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