I’m not convinced GMail spam rules are purposely set up to do this. It’s easy enough for the users to not want this content. And I personally was somehow single

I’m not convinced GMail spam rules are purposely set up to do this. It’s easy enough for the users to not want this content. And I personally was somehow single-opted into government+politics from 7 states away and can’t manage to unsubscribe (despite using the tools that both Gmail and the sending vendor have). As a user it is incredibly frustrating and I will lash out in any way I can. Also worth pointing out that Republicans aren’t crying that Yahoo! Mail spam filtering seems to bias towards R and away from D. They don’t care about “fair” or “even playing field”. They want whatever benefits them and conveniently ignore the issues that bias to their benefit. Additionally, Google has already proposed a fix, which is to exempt political campaigns from email filtering (good luck on actual spammers not exploiting this) and to have the FEC (a small, under resourced government oversight department whose board is always political) somehow weigh in whenever there is a controversy. Better to build a system communication channel outside of email/SMS for this purpose.