It’s Time to Gear Up for Pander Season

[Ben Lamb]

Great blog post on Field & Streams Conservatonist Blog about the Pandering season:

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/the-conservationist/it’s-time-to-gear-up-for-pander-season

For most of America, the next five months will be known as election season.

For America’s sportsmen, it will be Pander Season.

This is when politicians of every ideological stripe tell us how much they love us. They’ll speak about our important role in the nation’s cultural traditions, praise our contributions to conservation, regale us with a few stories about their own outdoors experiences – they might even wear a little camouflage to let us know they’re one of us. And, of course, they will speak loudly and at length about the Second Amendment.

But beginning the day after the elections, most of them will start treating us like we’re that one over the limit. We won’t just be forgotten. We’ll be sacrificed to some greater good – any greater well. Like oil and gas. Or timber, agriculture, mining, state budgets, home builders, shipping…well, any interest group that has more money to pour into their campaigns than hunters, fishers and other outdoors folks.

Maybe this year sportsmen can shake up that tradition a bit by meeting those panderers with some interesting questions. This may not change their votes – but it might change the minds of some of those being pandered to. You can help expose the harm many of them have been doing to the people they claim to love.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Yup that's us, we are a willing audience to pandering from whichever side we decide to listen to. Promises that last as long as an ice cube in the summer sun.