Dear MoveOn,

Kindly…. Piss-off and leave me alone.

After religiously signing your petitions, attending fundraisers, participating in “call your legislator emergency actions” and supporting you for years – I’ve simply lost faith.

I don’t really believe you’re making a difference.

I’ve witnessed the hyper conservative movement, (coups?), steamroll right through, (with little resistance or accountability): rigged elections, falsely started wars, the reduction of civil rights, the… (shall we go on?)…. All the while good intending organizations like yours have simply been written off and deftly portrayed as the whining, crying liberal minority in the corner.

The most profound statement I’ve read to date regarding our state-of-the-nation was pasted to the bumper of a car in rush hour:

“IF YOU’RE NOT APPALLED, YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION”

And that’s where organizations like MoveOn.org and others are failing miserably. You’re preaching to the choir, – to those that “are” already paying attention.

Until you change your tactics to reach a new audience, and / or someone finds a way to shake Americans from their very unique flavor of mass-media pacified / Big Macâ„¢ fed malaise – you will be doomed to impotence.

All you’re doing now is merely aggravating the ulcers of your well-defined target audience; left-leaning folk like myself.

I have run out of antacids – and with the future prospects of healthcare in America I can’t afford an ulcer.

So…

Kindly… Piss off and leave me alone.

Jim Corbett 3.0
Saint Louis, MO

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P.S.: Urr.. That was a comment to MoveOn.org in their “unsubscribe from all lists” form, (and the first step in removing ourselves from “the game”….. not a blog.