Is Corporate America Canceling Mother’s Day?

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Is Corporate America Canceling Mother’s Day?
Several years ago, I detailed the problematic aspects of Mother’s Day in my political humor book, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook. Like an article on the Babylon Bee, it appears to be coming true. Over the last few years you may have noticed emails and posts from stores asking if you wanted to opt out of emails before Mother’s Day. David Strom at Hot Air serves up several examples via Arizona Informer:

Strom wrote:

Corporate America, though, has for some reason decided that Mother’s Day is a “sensitive” time, a “challenging” time, or a “difficult” time, so they are inviting customers to opt out of emails related to the triggering day.
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This is ironic in many ways, not the least of which is that a lot of us find going to our email boxes because facing 20,082 unread emails–not including what wound up in “Junk,” is “difficult,” “challenging,” and “sensitive.” Personally, I would be happy if they sent me fewer marketing emails.

How about just ones telling me that something I want is 40% off? That I can handle.

Seconded.

Democrats Slightly More Likely to Vote Third Party in 2024
The Post Millennial reported that a survey by Rasmussen found that one-third of likely US voters were open to voting for a third-party presidential candidate in the 2024 election. Of these respondents, 12% said it was very likely they would do so. Democrats were 6% more likely than Republicans and 5% more likely than independents to support a third-party candidate. Of course, third parties notoriously do better in non-binding polls.

Respondents had different opinions on which major party a third-party candidate would affect the most. The Post Millennial reported, “Rasmussen found that ‘partisan voters are more likely to think their own party's candidate will be hurt most by a third-party challenge,’ with 50 percent of GOP voters and 48 percent of Democratic voters saying as much. Unaffiliated voters were twice as likely to believe that a third-party candidate would have a greater impact on Republicans over Democrats.”

Additionally, the survey found that younger voters were the most disillusioned with the major parties, with 58% of those under 40 saying they might support a third-party candidate. In contrast, just 13% of seniors said the same.