“These types of mailers are nothing new. I think I’ve received similar “voter alerts†before. It’s not worth giving a cheap campaign advertisement so much scrutiny, unless you’re a Trumpkin desperate to smear the biggest threat to your campaign with phony outrage. Since when did these tough-talking Trump fans suddenly become such fragile flowers with such delicate sensibilities? LOL”
It’s amazing that you don’t realize that you continually engage in the same futile shaming, underhanded insinuations that everyone is taking such offense at getting from Cruz. Thank the heavens that you don’t have a database!
However, something has occurred to me from your posts that everyone here should stop and take note of because this is what has been planned, instigated and implemented by a much more vast plan to destroy us than we could ever imagine. Even a good number of people my own age have been swallowed by it.
You, perhaps beyond your control, are a product of decades of conditioning to be just what you are. The shaping of your ideals has been carefully orchestrated by an educational system and a media that have all but stamped out individual responsibility and thought. In their place, allegiance to the hive, the crowd, the hierarchy, and the absolute importance of the approval of the group has become a part of your thought process.
For this reason, you see nothing wrong with “shaming” individuals who don’t or won’t conform, be it with mailings, advertising, education or even dress.
Heads up, all those who have vested interest(children) in this nation’s future. You may not have realized just how much influence has been brought to bear on the malleable while they “learn” in the institutions that teach these opposite of American values.
You, JJ, seem not to realize that your freedom to follow the herd is in no way diminished by a Trump candidacy or even by denigrating remarks about your candidate. But being free to do as your conscience leads you just isn’t enough somehow, nor, it seems, is it for Mr. Cruz. If Cruz can’t stand on his merits without resorting to these smarmy tactics, then he isn’t much but is rather an example of just how far this nation has fallen and why.
BTW, my outrage isn’t phony. It’s from a person who grew up in a much different climate and atmosphere in America than the one that would foster Cruz and his mailers. My Dad would have blasted the ears of anyone who even dared to ask him what his politics were much less get the information on the sly and tell it to the neighbors. I’m glad he’s not here to see this.
LOL, is that why I'm disagreeing with the majority on this thread? Trust me, the last thing I look for is the approval of the group. If I did, I wouldn't be a Republican in a Democrat family, a Democrat state, a Democrat county, etc. Different voters need different tactics. This mailer wouldn't work on me, I'd laugh at it and throw it out. But I'll leave it to the marketing experts to figure out who it would work on.