{"id":38,"date":"2006-10-20T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T23:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2006-10-20T18:21:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T23:21:25","slug":"use-your-copywriting-skills-to-legally-rig-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/use-your-copywriting-skills-to-legally-rig-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Legally “Rig” Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’d like to persuade thousands of people in your community to vote a certain way, then doing so is easier than you might think.<\/p>\n

Here’s why:<\/p>\n

One of the fastest and easiest ways to influence mass numbers of people in your community is with a simple “letter to the editor” in your local newspapers.<\/p>\n

People read these letters every single day of the week, in big cities and small towns alike. <\/p>\n

And a well crafted letter to the editor often influences the way people in your city, county and state vote on an issue.<\/p>\n

And guess what?<\/p>\n

If you have at least the “basics” of copywriting down, you can write a short letter to the editor of your local newspaper, and potentially persuade thousands<\/em> of people to your side of a political issue.<\/p>\n

In fact, all you really have to do is tell a simple story.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A brief, one or two paragraph story can pry open even the most tightly-closed mind — and literally change the entire way a person thinks about an issue.<\/p>\n

A perfect example of this is a story from radio talk show host Michael Savage’s book “The Enemy Within”<\/a><\/strong> about his first job fresh out of college as a social worker.<\/p>\n

He was dead broke, living in a tiny apartment, and was sleeping on a mattress on the floor with two orange crates as lamp stands and no other furniture.<\/p>\n

And yet, the welfare clients he was helping got free beds, free coffee tables, free sofas, etc — all the things most people have to work their fingers to the bone for — without working, and on the taxpayer’s dime.<\/p>\n

This short, simple story perfectly illustrated his point about why the system is so flawed. <\/p>\n

No complicated statistics or expensive government studies were needed to make his point.<\/p>\n

That’s the power of stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They open closed minds. <\/p>\n

Let you “say” more with fewer words. <\/p>\n

And give people the chance to convince<\/u> themselves<\/u> your point is valid — without lecturing, arguing or confrontation.<\/p>\n

And if you use this “power” correctly… you’ll give “your side” in a political debate an enormous advantage when election time rolls around.<\/p>\n

For example…<\/p>\n

Do you see rampant corruption, perversion and bureaucratic unaccountability rotting your community’s schools?<\/p>\n

Want to stop your local officials from trying to seize your property by abusing eminent domain laws?<\/p>\n

Are you angry with the way your state politicians are voting and spending your tax money?<\/p>\n

Then simply grab a pen and paper, hammer out a simple story that illustrates your point, and submit it to the letters to the editor section of your newspaper.<\/p>\n

But don’t stop there.<\/p>\n

Send it to everyone and anyone who will listen. <\/p>\n

Mail it to your mayor, city council, state congressman and senator. <\/p>\n

Email it to your neighbors, friends and family. <\/p>\n

Post it on community bulletin boards, blogs and Internet forums.<\/p>\n

Look, it may not work all the time.<\/p>\n

It may not even work some<\/em> of the time.<\/p>\n

But when it does work, you can influence the hearts and minds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’d like to persuade thousands of people in your community to vote a certain way, then doing so is easier than you might think. Here’s why: One of the fastest and easiest ways to influence mass numbers of people in your community is with a simple “letter to the editor” in your local newspapers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}