After publishing a post where I encouraged people to stop posting about politics, I got into a discussion about the merits of such posts. One friend suggested that these people were merely doing with politics what I do with religion. It was a point worth considering. And rejecting.

The point would be valid about political posts in general, but not about 99% of what I see. I don’t see reasoned arguments. I don’t see posts explaining the worth of a certain position. I don’t see explanatory posts which detail the plans and policies a certain candidate is proposing.

The political posts I see are attacks on the other candidate. I see people explaining why they won’t support Hilary or why they won’t support Trump. They don’t explain what good they hope their candidate will do.

The political posts I see are often based on distortion and mistruths. Facts fall by the wayside in an effort to promote fear and distrust of the other candidate.

The political posts I see almost always come from a biased source. Granted, there aren’t a lot of unbiased sources out there. But when your source is Liberal MediaSite or Conservative Mouthpiece, I’m really not interested in reading their attack on the opposing candidate.

There are religious posts like that. I try not to create them myself nor repost them. I don’t care for them when it comes to religion any more than I do when politics is the subject.

So maybe I’m not against all political posts, in a theoretical sense. I’m just opposed to the ones that are currently being put out there by people I know.

I wish I could say that I think things will get better after November, but experience says that the next election cycle begins even before the current one ends. It’s a never-ending circle of hysteria and fear. Every election is the most important one ever. Every election is critical to the future of this country and the entire world. Or so they say.