My beloved Sassy used to have a recurring feature called "Working Our Nerves"; I'm picking up the baton.
I avoided getting political after the election. My guy won, and there was no need to gloat. But damn, craziness abounds. People are floating some straight-up ridiculous stuff. I don't comment when it's posted on Facebook because I use that site to keep up with people and talk about what I'm watching on Netflix, not to get into arguments. It's silly and pointless. Still, it's reached the point where I have to say something. Here's the deal: Barack Obama is a Democrat, and a centrist one at that. He is not a Nazi, and if you think that he is, or that he's anything close to that, you are contributing nothing of worth to the discussion. All you are doing is a fostering an environment in which disagreeing with someone means distrusting him at at best and hating him at worst. We should strive for respectful disagreement; spewing venomous bullshit isn't helping anything. And don't accuse me of being a hypocrite for calling this stuff venomous bullshit: that's what it is. There is not an effective synonym for
bullshit in the English language; I've tried finding one to no avail.
