2/2 So imagine, knowing this livelihood as your means to an end. It's how you get paid and how you feed your family. It's obvious to the rest of us that this

2/2 So imagine, knowing this livelihood as your means to an end. It's how you get paid and how you feed your family. It's obvious to the rest of us that this is not the right way to engage in conversation. But it's something they are capable of being efficient and effective in the "political dialogue" in this country. They find things that will "trigger" their opposition and cookie cutter the process of (a) finding the threads and matching those with the GIFs, JPEGs, (b) pasting them into the threads. This is obvious troll-like behavior, but perhaps the only way these folks recognize an trajectory toward having an impact. When I think about this, as a potentially accurate way of depicting what is happening, it's grotesque and makes me want to lash out in general at our education system in how we've built an entire army of citizens who treat political dialogue / civic-engagement as a line-chef treats the food that comes to their station. Would love to hear other interesting takes on their perspectives as to how they're seeing US politics play out in the world today.