Follow-up to Last Post

Sorry if I upset others with the force of the last post. WordPress lists me as having only 28 followers now.

Either WordPress hit a glitch or 72 people ended following me after the last post. I’ll be the first to say that I regret having voted for some of the dangerous clowns I pulled the flapjack for or slid the ballot into the machine for.

Did I upset people by recounting what Allen Frances, M.D. wrote? Only algorithms fuel antagonistic clickbait that keeps Americans juiced up and judging each other. No one can deny that this falls under the rubric of a collective psyche that has become business as usual and could be considered pathological. Attacks go viral in nanoseconds. So does the hearsay about what other people are doing and saying that the original writer posted in a malicious attack.

Everyday American life shouldn’t be like this. No one benefits from scrolling this kind of social media two hours a day. If there was a WordPress glitch that ended 72 followers to this blog then I’m sorry too that the readers who left are missing out on competitive career advice.

We can’t deny that Americans get who we elect. Not every Democrat president has been OK either. In the coming blog entry I’ll talk about my choice of not getting political in the blogs anymore.

It begs the reality of the popular vote versus the electoral college. As things stand no elected leader has a vested interest in doing away with the electoral college.

You could say Kamala Harris won the popular vote. Only the election night map that I saw was red red red all over the United States. This led me to believe that the majority of Americans voted for the president.

A woman told me that she thinks Elon Musk rigged the election. Funny how no Democrats claim election fraud when a Republican wins. No Democrat slandered Georgia election officials.

You see why I refuse to write about politics in the blogs any more. It detracts from the focus of health and fitness and of career advice and of beauty and fashion and book reviews.

The next blog entry will be about why exactly I choose not to get political. And why I think followers and other peers should keep politics out of our play.

Because really Americans hating each other and attacking each other has been not normal. Putting our faith in whatever political candidate comes around every four years promising us the sun moon and stars hasn’t always been to our advantage.

Like I said: there have been Democrats that I wish I hadn’t voted for too. Now is the time to hold our elected leaders accountable for doing what they said they will when they campaign for us to vote for them.

Again I want no part of writing about politics any more. Zero. Zip. Nada.

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Author: Christina Bruni

Christina Bruni is the author of the new book Working Assets: A Career Guide for Peers. She contributed a chapter "Recovery is Within Reach" to Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health.

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