Here is a petition that I have just published on Change.org . You can sign it at:
https://www.change.org/p/chairmen-tell-the-rnc-dnc-end-despicable-negative-campaigning?recruiter=971406&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive
The national corporate media are flooding our homes with messages that belittle and demean rival candidates. Moreover, the most negative messages flaunt common decency, instill prejudice and hatred, and promote violence; many of those messages are coming from candidates for office that you are supporting. Watch out for this candidate, we are told; he will take away your right to defend yourself. “Hate and fear Muslim refugees; choose to wipe them all out,” they bluster. “Build walls, exclude those Mexican rapists from our blessed country.”
We know millions of Americans are sick of these messages, sick of a political process that blatantly corrupts democratic ideals, reducing democracy to its lowest common denominator. Free speech of the sleaziest kind.
Larry Shushansky, in a Huffington Post essay, argues convincingly that what we need in politics today is “decent, fair, and respectful conversation instead of accusations, attacks, and anger.”
Dear Chairmen, please help the democratic process purify itself. Provide your candidates with some guidelines illustrating standards of decency and respect for human rights. Save democratic ideals. Don’t bury them in sludge.
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