This time in an election year, a presidential election year especially, your inbox like mine is stuffed with pleas for donations. I usually delete most of them but read a scattered few. The text is usually so ludicrous and pleading as to bring tears of laughter to my eyes. Unless you can send me only a few more dollars by midnight tonight all hope of my election is gone. My opponent is spending millions in hope of retaining his position as the Republican City Dog Catcher. Please chip in right away or all is lost. Usually, I'm a sympathetic person but not with something so obviously not true.
What I consider even worse is a plea to support some worthy cause or other. Sign if you support the eradication of wood ticks in state forests. They are so grateful to have your name on the sucker list, they pop up another page where you check off how much you are sending. They always forget to make a check box for nothing dollars. But they always follow up with another letter asking you to betray your friends by making sure they get on the list too.
I do have to admit that I have sent some money, nothing very much since my only income is from Social Security, but all I truthfully could afford. But instead of money, I helped my choice, Bernie Sanders, by sending numerous letters to editors to help fill the venues where he chose to speak. Every e-mail I sent carried the admonition in Spanish -- Vamonos y votar por Bernie Sanders -- Now it's been changed to -- Vamonos y por Hillary Clinton --. Either Bernie or Hillary will be great presidents. And maybe take care of the wood tick plaque in forests that Republicans say
Obama won't do anything about.
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