When you treat the public as an expendable resource to be used up, don't be surprised when they respond in kind.

https://mk.gabe.rocks/notes/9s1ycelqd6 - Gabriel

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For the record, I don't think angry emails to journalists will move the needle on anything. Arguably it's part of public servant's jobs to tough out a certain amount of feedback, but I still don't think being needlessly inflammatory is productive.

But when you've got a country filled with hurting people from issues that the elite are comfortably isolated from, angry emails and social media comments are the least of your worries. When you treat the public as an expendable resource to be used up, don't be surprised when they respond in kind.

Things won't improve with tone-deaf campaigns like this, things will only get better if leadership improves which is bigger than any one person.