This comment by mark on the post Thinkb4ulink
Couldn’t agree with you more. We have become lazy, insipid people who go out of our ways to jump to conclusions, or worse push our agendas on without telling the truth about what our point is. I made it a point years ago not to pass this kind of stuff on without doing even a modicum of fact checking as I didn’t want my name attached to it. This is one of the reasons we are in such a mess politically. Sound bites are the tools most Americans use to educate themselves about the issues or the candidates and then vote accordingly.
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Food for Thought:
Have we become slaves to false social media positive reinforcements in the form of Like, Share and Tweet?
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said “Everyone in entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.” Wise words to live by and I wish more f us, and especially politicians, social media and media in general would.