A profession that is even more reviled than the telemarketing profession

In a previous post, I attempted to find some tips for those who are employed as telemarketers. While I was able to find a few tips, it's much easier to find tips on how to AVOID telemarketers. For example:

Alex apparently believes that because he needs $250 a week, anything he has to do in order to earn that, no matter how repulsive to those he interacts with, is justified (perhaps because he's not a suburban white guy), and that those who are unhappy with his behavior are somehow obliged to simply roll over and take it.

I would point out to Alex that just as he maintains that he has the right to make my life more unpleasant by calling me to attempt to sell me things I don't want to buy, I have the right to deliberately try to make his life more unpleasant by using the sort of techniques on the web page, and furthermore, to try to encourage other people to do so as well.

But as the air gets a little colder in the southern California autumn, I think that I've found a profession that is even more reviled than the telemarketing profession.

There will be an election in California in about a month, which means that the television and radio airwaves are already filled with election ads. California is a proposition-happy state, so a lot of those ads either support or oppose one proposition or another. Yet regardless of the proposition in question or the stance on said proposition, all of the advertisements have one thing in common.

All of the advertisements agree that the politicians are evil.

Ads that support a particular proposition state that the proposition was expressly designed to support the people in their fight against the abuses of the politicians.

Ads that oppose a particular proposition state that the proposition was put on the ballot by evil politicians in order to try to fool the people. While the proposition claims to make things wonderful, the REAL purpose of the proposition is to allow the politicians and their cronies in Sacramento to raise taxes, gut services, and buy expensive wines for themselves.

Oh, and there's one other thing that's common about all of the advertisements.

All of the advertisements themselves were written by politicians.

Perhaps the politicians refer to themselves as "the dedicated public servants who teach your children." But in reality, they're the Sacramento-based political action committee funded by the teacher's union.

Or perhaps the politicians refer to themselves as "businesses, providing jobs in your community." But in reality, they're the Sacramento-based political action committee funded by the business organization lobby.

Regardless of how much someone may claim NOT to be a politician, the truth remains - if you're running for political office, or contesting something on a political ballot, then you ARE a politician...whether you like it or not.

So, in essence, you have politicians who are funding ads saying how evil politicians are.

If that isn't self-loathing, I don't know what is.