I’ve made no secret that I don’t particularly care about writing about politics. But it’s gotten to a point where I can’t go anywhere, turn to any channel, open up a browser or look at Facebook without there being mention of politics. I’m getting to the point where I don’t want to seek out the news and or look at social media, because I just know that all people are going to be reporting on or talking about is what’s going on in the political scene, and it’s going to again bring that surreal feeling that this is truly reality, and will be for the unforeseeable future.
At the time I’m writing this, I’m back in Virginia, visiting my parents, on what is admittedly not a leisure trip in the least. That being said, I really could use some distractions from what’s going on in my life and my family, and hope that others out there are doing more positive things in theirs. But nope, people are using social media to vent about their disdain towards all of the seemingly asinine thing that are happening at such a breakneck pace, and I’m asking myself if the headlines that I’m being exposed to are actually real.
But then I turn on a television or walk past a screen showing the news, and the same types of headlines are being broadcast to larger audiences outside of my Facebook feeds. Healthcare being repealed. Women’s rights to be seemingly reduced. Christians to receive priority about all other foreigners seeking entry to America. A fucking wall to divide the United States from Mexico.
Seriously, how are these headlines factual in the year two thousand and seventeen?