Hello again,

Today's blog is about something I had posted on Facebook (that a friend had responded to) and it made me realize I should use it as my next blog posting. 

The fb post was about how today's students (those in college) are not able to distinguish fake news from real news. I responded that I understood this first hand since I had just had a conversation with a college student at a Thanksgiving celebration. 

I also said it was really sad and maddening since he was supposed to be 'learning' but was only parroting falsity about both the candidate he is supporting and Hillary Clinton (oh, her emails!...oh, Benghazi!), citing positive false narratives for his candidate and of course negative ones for Hillary. When I asked him why, if "Hillary is the establishment" (as he gave for one of his base reason(s) as to why he doesn't like her), why didn't "the establishment" embrace her platform, he couldn't answer me. 

So I told him why: Hillary's platform was and still is about changing the 'establishment' and of course the 'establishment' is not about change of any kind, but solely about maintaining the status quo. 

That's when he got this look of omg I didn't think of that and told me that because of our conversation, he was definitely going to do his homework on all current candidates, i.e. look at their voting history and who they associate(d) with as well as actually read their published platforms. 

Hopefully it means he will not be sucked into any more false 'news' about any candidates and instead become a truly knowledgeable informed voter whose vote is based on facts (to help counter all the 'adult' voters who are equally being sucked in emotionally about their chosen candidate). 

Democracy is not about being emotional and saving our republic demands that we be rational, intelligent, well-informed citizens who participate in our government and vote based on the facts of who is the best person with overall experience and positive outcomes for the well-being of our republic. 

We as a nation need to separate our emotions from our ability to be critical thinkers. That is the true definition of a patriot.

Sigh...nothing's easy.

Here's to your health and well-being.

Cheers,
Mimi