So, I got an email from the President today. I think that makes me pretty special and makes my spam program pretty shitty.
How in the world did I get on his email list? I didn't sign up to get on his list. There was no double opt-in sequence followed. Just, magically, one day, I'm getting emails from one of the biggest con men in the country. I'm sure that my spam filter is supposed to catch this crap.
But I read it.
And I'm glad I did.
Not because of the message. He's still trying to sell his handlers' healthcare package to us. Unfortunately, after listening to this guy's BS for 2.5 years now, he could come out with a great idea and be honest about it and I would instantly dismiss it out of habit. He has no credibility with me and I don't think he could undo the damage even if he wanted to. I don't pay him millions of dollars though so the chance of him being transparent with me are about zilch.
Here was the funniest bit from the email, just in case your not as cool as me and didn't get this sent to you (or you have a better spam filter than me):
"Over the next month there is going to be an avalanche of misinformation and scare tactics from those seeking to perpetuate the status quo."
I'll bet and I won't be surprised at all if much of that misinformation and scare tactics comes from the domain of messages.whitehouse.gov.
Anyway, the reason that I was glad that I read the message was that it really did drive home a point. Even with a crooked congress, if we had a real leader in the White House, he (or she) would have a bully pulpit like no other president has ever had. A true leader, an honest and transparent president who would actually *do* what was best for this country, could reach out to the people and could have them reach back to their representatives. He could bring a voting record under scrutiny and advertise how much money the rep had taken in trade for their vote.
He would have enough power, I think that he really could change this country.
The trick is going to be finding an honest person and then somehow bypassing corporate media programming of the hypnotized masses. Still, I'm hopeful that we can change things and that when that change happens, it will happen quickly because of today's technology.
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