What's going on in your life? I mean your real life. Anything interesting? Are you enjoying nourishing relationships with friends, those people you actually can reach out and touch in the flesh? Are you happy within your family? Do you take good care of your health? Do you understand that anything you say to the people you know will not impact the results regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, or are you delusional? Do you fully accept that your involvement in the situation is the same as when you binge-watch Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones or Orange is the New Black or The Handmaid's Tale or whatever fictional TV series holds you in its grip? For example, I really wanted Dr. Cristina Yang to stay in Seattle and hated that Dr. Mark Sloane died on Grey's Anatomy, but the writers went ahead and obliterated both of them anyway.Don't be a watcher; do something. And BTW, sitting down inside a school building with all your friends or marching around a public square holding a hastily scrawled sign in one hand and a mocha latte in the other doesn't count. If you're still young, go to law school. If you're older, get into local politics and run for office. Be someone who actually makes a difference.
Otherwise, as Hawaii's junior Senator Mazie Hirono recently suggested to all the men in America, "Just shut up about it." Spreading half-truths through uninformed and self-aggrandizing comments on Facebook accomplishes nothing besides making yourself a few new enemies.
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