If you are conservative, or simply non-political, you may have noticed
a curious trait that many of your liberal social media friends exhibit. If they
are like a few of mine, they frequently put up political posts, many of them
ludicrous, with a comment something like this: "As my long-time friends
know, I rarely post any political stuff, but this time I just couldn't help
myself!"
I've never put up
a purely, overtly political post on my regular Facebook page, or on Twitter,
Instagram, Snapchat, etc., and most, though not all, of my conservative brethren
are similarly restrained. I, of course, use my clearly labeled blog to convey
my beliefs. We conservatives tend to get irked and dismayed when clear
political bias is injected into entertainment fields such as movies and
television, and also sporting events, the weather, obituaries, fortune cookies,
and children's bedtime stories. The left, however, never
rests...and apparently doesn't want your children to, either.
Again, I can't
tell you how often a liberal Facebook "friend" will preface a
political post with, "As you all know if you've followed/friended me long,
I loathe getting political on here, but...," before launching into a
remarkably emotional, ill-informed political rant and sharing a post from
Slate.com purporting to show that Elizabeth Warren is a caring intellectual,
who- if it wasn't for sexist pigs- would already have her visage chiseled into
Mount Rushmore, while Ted Cruz is mean and everybody hates him for good reason.
(Whew! That may have been the longest sentence I've ever scribbled here).
I'm sorry my
liberal buddies, but when roughly 60% of your posts are of the "Yay my
team, your team wants to destroy the planet in the quickest manner
possible" variety, it's a little hard to take your claims of political
chastity seriously.
In many cases, if
these palpably progressive posters actually have managed to go a day or
two without, say, comparing President Trump's policies to those of the Khmer
Rouge, when they eventually then state, "This was just too much, I had
to post it," the dam breaks. Instead of just one post, they now often turn
into crazed, human, political-commentary pez dispensers, firing off dozens of
posts in a few hour span, all designed to show off their superior tolerance and
inclusiveness, in an online version of a Honda Element sporting 13
bumper-stickers, including “Coexist,” “Visualize World Peace,” and “You Can’t
Hug Your Kids With Nuclear Arms.” (That
may now have been my longest sentence).
Thank the Lord
I've got my blog.
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