Every four years we have to suffer through a Presidential campaign, but in the era of social media the agony has truly been heightened to an almost unbearable level. Not only do we have to listen to candidates and pundits, now we have to bear our (supposed) friends sharing their own, often wharped, views about the various candidates and their supporters. I have to admit I kind of snapped this morning and wrote this on Facebook:
An interpretation of modern American politics based on extensive reading of my friends' Facebook and Twitter posts – in four paragraphs:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Teach a Republican to fish and he hires all the non-union fishermen, pays them minimum wage, decimates the fishery, ships the entire catch to the Cayman Islands and has them stored in a secret freezer. He keeps a small portion in the states to live off of day-to-day and pays capital gains on it. Fires all the fishermen and figures out a way to get more fish in China. Blame the lack of fish in American waters on the Godless Democrats' turning us into a non-Christian nation and hope that no one has actually read the Bill of Rights.
The Green Party candidate doesn't eat fish so he fries up some tofu and calls the Democrat and Republican mean names.
I thought it was funny. How did your ‘friends’ react?