It Has Come To This

Somehow, Bernie Sanders' campaign has infiltrated my Facebook feed.  I keep getting these messages.  Some are benign, walking the reader through voter registration questions - because apparently that's how the "revolution" happens.

But as they increasingly accused Clinton of criminality and being a new Hitler, I finally did something I NEVER do: block content on my Facebook feed.

I have remained "friends" with people for years who all I do with them is argue on Facebook.  But these people aren't my friends, and I don't know why I have to scroll past their stuff.  So I reported them as spam and blocked people like "Eric."  Now I'm getting the same messages from "Melanie."  So, I block her, too.

At this point, I feel more antagonized than interested.  I realize that this is simply reinforcing a previously held position, but isn't that the great peril of the Internet?  Doesn't this account for our extreme polarization?