POLITICS & DEMOCRACY

We Deserve Better.

Our elected officials should seek to inform — not enrage.

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I opened an e-newsletter today, shook my head in disgust while reading, then hit delete. “We deserve better,” I thought. A few moments later I found better — but from a different source. Both sources are elected leaders — one who seeks to inform his constituents and one who seeks to enrage them. If your elected officials are like the latter, I hope seeing the contrasting examples below will help you ask for the unbiased, informative, and helpful updates you deserve.

EXAMPLE #1: An official who seeks to enrage (we need *less* of this)

I’ll highlight just two of the shortcomings in this section that appeared toward the top of newsletter:

1. Calling something as nuanced and multi-factored as inflation “Bidenflation” is childish. The term is particularly odd when the Fox News article to which “majority of adult Americans” hyperlinks never mentions President Biden. The article does, however, cite recent polls that found the number of Americans who say inflation is making their…