Gullibaloney

It's tasty, tantalizing and so easy to swallow. It flits across your social media one moment and the next you’re uploading it to your belief system - no questions asked. Bango, presto, you start propagating out the latest conspiracy theory - your new truth – onto Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, DingDong and whatever other time-sucking platforms you belong to as fast as your aching (most likely numb) thumbs will allow and voila... you are now a part of the problem!

Once upon a time, before the orange-haired shall-remain-nameless bully bludgeoned his way into the public psyche, people were more inclined to truth-seek. You know, spend a little time to connect the dots for themselves to arrive at some semblance of the truth.

Today, for reasons I’ll never totally get, a high percentage of the American populace actually believe the U.S. government is run by a group of pedophiles involved in human trafficking! Even worse, deadly riots arose because a deluded leader infected millions of citizens with his gullibaloney that the election was unjustly stolen from him!

Let’s get real, folks. Do yourself and the world a favor, take a deep breath and perhaps even consider doing a deep dive the next time some gullibaloid has you considering - without hesitation - spreading damaging lies!

Remember, as Abe Lincoln once so wisely said, “You can’t believe everything you read on the internet.”