Help me write a progressive viral email - now with working links!
by Last Mechanic
Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 10:16:44 PM PDT
I'm increasingly disturbed by the campaign of misinformation that's out there in email land. Every day someone in my family stuns me with stupidity and the terrible effectiveness of misinformation. As we get closer to November, I know it's only going to get worse. I want to fight back, and I'm hoping for some help here.
Since over dinner tonight the issue of the economy came up (and the absurd argument that the economic boom during Clinton was actually due to Reagan. Sheesh!) I wanted to try to find some actual real information I can circulate around. Amazing to me how there seems to be mass delusion on this issue, where somehow Republicans are thought to be better for the economy by too many Americans who don't read the news, but do somehow read and forward inane, vitriolic emails and trust them implicitly.
Below I've cobbled together something I wanted to massage into a counter-point viral email that people will actually read, so it's got to be short and to the point. I'll try to make it punchier when I've got a better handle on the facts.
I'm hoping for some feedback and perhaps some more recent information to help make this case a little better, so if you've got sources or ideas, please share!
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