I found this book to be little more than a profanity-laced romp through some of the worst examples of behavior by prominent figures in the age of Trump, and their useful idiots on social media that liberals can’t seem to ignore. I certainly don’t disagree with the author’s premise that a large portion of today’s so-called conservatives are utterly devoid of any sort of ideological substance and driven exclusively by a twisted desire to inflame half of their fellow citizens, but it doesn’t take a 300 page book to do this. Reading this book over the course of a weekend feels more like a binge-watching marathon of Samantha Bee than a well-researched look into disturbing political trends of the day.
Where the author completely misses the mark is with her admission that she has no ideas on how to combat this problem, especially since there happens to be a foolproof way to starve Troll Nation of their oxygen, and that is by NOT ENGAGING THEM. Liberals have this uncanny need to reason with the unreasonable, to debate with those who have no intention of debating fairly and to hold on to the completely discredited notion that Troll Nation will finally see the light if you just present one more piece of data that proves them wrong. The reason that Troll Nation appears to infest every social media and comment thread on the internet is because liberals keep responding to them, thereby keeping them at the top of each and every thread.
Folks, if you want to defeat Troll Nation, stop engaging them! Put the energy that you spend on social media into organizing at a local level. Attend your local city council meetings. Make sure you and 10 of your closest friends are registered to vote and have the proper ID. Our democracy has been so thoroughly hijacked because we allow ourselves to be distracted by the GOP’s useful idiots on social media.
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