IMO, if you (general “you”) despise these emails and will never donate based on an impersonal yet breathless email about how democracy dies TONIGHT unless you send $10 RIGHT NOW to Candidate You’ve Never Heard Of… …then it doesn’t hurt you or the campaigns to block them en masse.

That said—more likely than not, at least one organization or campaign that you believe in is using this annoying strategy right now because it seems to work, and there is so much to do and never enough money to pay for it.