The last year or so I have found places like Facebook to be incredibly frustrating. Election years always tend to stir up more of the "sludge" of society that most of us turn a blind eye to. Recent years have seen a decline in a once prosperous economy, increasing rates of unemployment and homelessness and an array of other social issues. It seems that America is again struggling with her identity.
Over the last month I have watched meme after meme be posted from both sides of the political spectrum. The ones I find most bothersome are the ones involving the current national conversation about Gun Violence and Gun Control. What really gets to me is the constant barrage of inflammatory, uneducated, unresearched and unwarranted propaganda. The upside to this is that I am reminded that while I may be left-of-the-middle when it comes to politics, I am still in the middle. While I'm being constantly inundated with misattributed quotes and misleading statistics I find myself wondering: are we really talking about this issue or are we simply in a shouting match to see who can yell the loudest? The likely answer to that question is that it is just one big shouting match wherein nothing will really be accomplished. That worries me.
