{"id":31590,"date":"2020-12-17T21:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T03:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31590"},"modified":"2020-12-17T21:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T03:54:41","slug":"the-use-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/17\/the-use-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Use Of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the Trump Administration used the unethical tool of baseless fear in his reelection campaign is as well-known as it is despicable. But it appears the Democrats aren&#8217;t entirely above its use, either. This is from a promotional e-mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I need you to know: Everything just changed in the race for the Senate. &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The ONLY way we win the Senate is flipping BOTH runoff seats.<br \/>\n&#8212; But McConnell just dumped $50 MILLION to sabotage our chances.<br \/>\n&#8212; So Joe Biden just held a MASSIVE rally in Georgia to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t overstate the importance. This is our last shot in a generation to flip the Senate &#8212; but we have to take on McConnell\u2019s war chest to do it. Can I count on you to rush $10 to flip Georgia blue and finally win the Senate? I will personally 3X-match your generous gift &gt;&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you catch it? <strong><em>This is our last shot in a generation to flip the Senate<\/em><\/strong> &#8230; except it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats get another shot in two years.<\/p>\n<p>And the two years after that.<\/p>\n<p>Etc.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re a Democrat, I&#8217;m sure your pulse increased and your mouse strayed towards the donation buttons, which appear later in the mail. Whoever wrote that said something terribly scary, and that&#8217;ll chase rational thought right out of your head.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d rate this as an unethical email, and I&#8217;m disappointed in the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the Trump Administration used the unethical tool of baseless fear in his reelection campaign is as well-known as it is despicable. But it appears the Democrats aren&#8217;t entirely above its use, either. This is from a promotional e-mail: I need you to know: Everything just changed in the race \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/17\/the-use-of-fear\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31591,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31590\/revisions\/31591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}