RELENTLESS SCHNORRING as a Business Model.
2nd July 2021
This is just so entertaining that I had to mention it.
Schnorring is a Yiddish word for very aggressive begging. Both parties do it. But, at least for now, I am registered as a member of the Republican Party, so that is what I will be discussing. During election “season,” I get probably 100 daily texts, calls, and emails from the Party. Even during the merciful two or three weeks before the start of the NEXT campaign, I get somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 emails and 10 texts A DAY.
Some obscenely overpaid consultant has obviously conducted a seminar hitting every major psy-ops persuasion technique known to man in the eternal quest to separate me from my hard-earned money. And believe me, I am very small potatoes, barely a Tater Tot. I can only imagine the pleas and bribes for the major donors. “I think I can get you an ambassadorship to Uganda. I know you wanted to be the US Ambassador to the United Nations, because the restaurants in New York are so much better than the one in Uganda, but I’m afraid the Democrats have promised that to legendary billionaire Conservative Biden supporter, Cindy McCain.”
There are so many opportunities in life to be importuned by people wanting to spend your money that sometimes it seems a shame that they don’t have monasteries around any more. This is why my wife and I have a NO SOLICITING sign on the door, and why we regularly have to report two or three people a year for blowing past it. (They invariably start their spiel with ‘I’m not soliciting, but….’)
Since I regularly vote in the Democrat primaries (in my part of Texas the Republican primaries are pretty self-managing) in order to cause as much trouble as I can, the stuff I get is pretty much SJW bullcrap. Yeah, it gives me a chance to insult people who richly deserve it, but some days it gets wearing – I went to college with these people, I don’t want to be reminded that they actually exist in real life.