Remember way back, oh so long ago when we didn’t have the internet or social media?  The youth of today probably think it was right around the same time fire was created.  It was a time where people tended to keep their opinions about religion, politics and abortion to themselves because we all know, you never spoke about those in public.  Well, people still won’t speak about those topics in public but they will on the internet. It’s as if the internet gives people a mask of sort but with their name attached.  It’s almost like all the rules we learned about life disappear once we open up that electronic device.  A portal to Hell. Our computer scans our brain and removes any filter we may have that prevents us from insulting others.

We all believe that our opinion is the right opinion.  I know I do because, well, it is.  Duh.  However, you never really knew what your friends and neighbors opinions were about controversial topics.  You weren’t really sure who was a Republican or Democrat unless that person chose to put a sign on their lawn around election time.  If you had an opposing view you may have urinated on the sign after dark but that was as far as it went.  You would hide your ballot in your underwear so no one knew who you were voting for.  I never had any idea who carried guns, loved guns, played with guns, and slept with guns, but now I do.  It really is amazing how angry people can get once other people’s opinions that differ from their own are out in the open.  I find myself liking some people less as a result which is a shame because there weren’t that many people I actually liked in the first place.

It makes me question what’s next.  If this continues people are going to be walking around their neighborhoods with pitchforks calling people out of their homes.  Bricks will be flying through windows in the most affluent of areas and tarring and feathering will make a comeback.  I know I jest but the anger that boils up inside of people just from reading an anti or pro-gun post on Facebook is insane. I even find myself having to walk away from my computer while mumbling the word asshat on a daily basis. This can only get worse, I can see it now, Democrats and Republicans will be having rumbles in parking lots.  We just need to decide which represents the Greasers and which the Socs.  I’m too preppy to be a Greaser so I hope this works out to my benefit.