Old Politicians, Your Disdain of Email Is Embarrassing

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

http://www.newser.com/story/203982/old-politicians-your-disdain-of-email-is-embarrassing.html

We've learned of late that Lindsey Graham doesn't like to email. Nor does Chuck Schumer, John McCain, Pat Roberts, Bill Clinton, Richard Shelby, Orrin Hatch, and other power-brokers of, shall we say, a certain age. The thing is, they all seem to be proud of it, as if their smug condescension toward an essential tool of modern life is a good thing, complain two much younger writers. "From now on they should be called by their rightful title: the Laziest Generation," writes Elspeth Reeve in the New Republic, extending her criticism beyond the DC set. At the Washington Post, Catherine Rampell dubs the political offenders the "Luddite Caucus" and is astonished they're often the same people making laws about technology.

Some of their shots:
Rampell: "Not taking the time to learn to communicate the way that pretty much everyone else in the nation does reveals such mindboggling levels of societal incuriosity that it should be considered political malpractice. ... If you’re still using a carrier pigeon while lecturing us about how it’s our fault that we haven’t acquired the skills desirable to 21st-century employers, don’t expect our vote." Click for her full post.
Reeve: "Every single day, from fancy offices in Washington to humbler ones across Middle America, boomers and their Silent Generation elders are preying on millennials: stealing time from them by refusing to learn technology and therefore making extra work for everybody else. ... Email is a tool. The internet is a tool. Humans use tools, it’s what separates us from, like, manatees." Click for her full post.

 

[Evil Eye]

Eh, I don't particularly care for email either. IM's where it's at.

 

[DrLeftover]

So they are overseeing an agency that regulates something they have no personal knowledge of or experience with, and they see no need to even look into it, or to have one of their staff do so and advise them from a position of competence.

... ... .... (insert Much Booze HERE)

... .... ...

Sounds right to me.

 

[Dee]

More like their continued existence and authority within the government over this country is embarrassing, but to each their own. I guess it doesn't matter all that much how you communicate with people as long as it works for you. If a quill and paper is your go-to means of contacting someone--so be it. It's just gonna take a bit longer to get to where it needs to go. However, there are instances where accepting and utilizing technology for progress can actually be a good thing.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

So they are overseeing an agency that regulates something they have no personal knowledge of or experience with, and they see no need to even look into it, or to have one of their staff do so and advise them from a position of competence.

... ... .... (insert Much Booze HERE)

... .... ...

Sounds right to me.

But of course because the idiot American people keep thinking more rules from a incompetent government are a good thing. And time after time they just keeping looking towards those buffoons endlessly for ruining things like the INTERNET. It is either a addiction or something like a religion to keep following these liberal progressives and the horrors they create. I have come to the conclusion as long as the freebies off the back of others keep rolling in these people will just keep accepting a government that always makes things worse. Somehow the productive of America need to stop the handouts and then the freebie people of the nation will turn on the above who are ruining America.

 

[Webster]

Somehow the productive of America need to stop the handouts and then the freebie people of the nation will turn on the above who are ruining America.

Either that or both groups turn on each other, which might be what Dear Comrade Leader wants to see happens...