Christiane Amanpour would be ashamed of me.
As a general rule, I don't write much about politics. Lord knows I have my own political views. Marc, I'm sure, would be happy to tell you how much fun it is to listen to my bilious gibberish during any given presidential address. However, in everyday life, I prefer to avoid it. It's pointless. If I'm with a group of people who share my political affiliation, then the conversation just seems like verbal wankery. And there is nothing I deplore more than, say, listening to a couple of half-drunk douches engaged in a scintillating debate about the socio-political implications of Roe v. Wade. How bloody original. Hey, who wants to do shots?
However ...
My mother is in the habit of sending me email manifestos that appear to have been written by some Cletus sitting around in his underwear and tube socks while on break from 24-hour online border surveillance. The one she sent me today, however, got me all riled up because it essentially implied that the vast majority who voted Democrat in the 2000 presidential election are/were tenement-dwelling, welfare-abusing murderers.
So, after replying-all to the e-mail (thereby involving a large portion of my extended family) and feeling very self-satisfied with my thoughtful, intelligent response, I started digging around online, and eventually realized that the e-mail she'd sent was the apparently-notorious "Fall of the Athenian Republic," which has its own debunker page on snopes.com.
Ahem.
Lesson learned. Just more evidence that I have no business whatsoever talking about politics. Would you like to hear another story about my cats?
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