And explained the above to me.

Funny how in a business (porn) filled with scams and cons, we never quite figure out that the “legit” (political porn) folks do it, too.

The key in direct mail is to get you INVOLVED. To get you to RESPOND.

So, they weight their “surveys” with issues that ought to appeal to the targeted demographic, and people respond, thinking that they’re DOING something and a certain number always think, “heck I’ll stick something in the envelope.”

Which makes money for the direct mail people (who run the same scams on both parties, use the same printers and the same techniques). Think of ’em as porn box covers. The “poll” is the come on for a lousy tape that doesn’t have one frame that matches the box cover. BUT, it makes ’em money.

The irony is, compared to the massive amount from “big donors,” the grassroots stuff is piddling, and doesn’t actually add up to all that much in the Big Picture. If they keep your demographic “involved” and maybe get the mailing to pay for itself, that’s gravy.

Oh, and if you give five or ten or twenty, they make money by “renting” their mailing list to, say, Judicial Watch, and the like. (same thing on the other side).

I’ve been inside politics (R and D) and I’ve been inside porn, and it’s really weird how much the view is the same.

As a buddy of mine says, in politics, no good deed goes unpunished.

There’s a reason why they’re so much more powerful than the Libertarians. They’re just giving the people what they want – and what the people want is to be able to feel like freedom loving Americans without having to do the work to actually understand what freedom actually means. We can feel like hot shit – without being hot shit.

Which brings me to Sasha Grey. Sasha Grey makes us believe we love beauty, freedom, and fun – even though in actuality she lets us indulge our need to see those things defaced, perverted, and trivialized. There’s a reason why she’s gonna be “the next Jenna Jameson.”

She’s successful, the Repubs are successful… what’s your beef South? You can hide behind the “but unlike politicos I don’t use force” mantra all day long, but deep down you know that when you make monsters, monstrous things start popping up all over the place.

Retire. (1234 Bank Account St, Bank Accout, BA, USA, 12345)