The Lethargy of Unrelenting Political Commentary on Social Media: Shutthefuckupism

 You have been religiously posting daily your political thoughts. You share the all memes and the links that support your view. You are a tireless champion for the cause but lately your posts are garnering likes or comments from only the most loyal of your friends if you get any reactions at all. It’s disheartening to think so many of your online friends are apathetic to the struggle or worse yet do not share your feelings on today’s most important issues. How could so many of them be so willfully blind or just dead wrong? 

It’s probably not you and your positions at all. Your less-than-interactive-lately page may well be the victim of Shutthefuckupism. Your take on issues, your political allegiance, your personal moral code – It’s all been well documented online by now. Your friends are long past wondering where you stand. They don’t question your beliefs.  In fact many of them probably don’t even disagree with them.  It’s just that at this point in your cyber existence they have read your repetitive thoughts ad nauseam. They are all just a bit numb to it now. It’s not that they don’t care. They just don’t have the energy or interest in validating you again. If they did honestly reply to you it would likely be something similar to ‘OK. We get it. We got it yesterday. And the day before. And the day before that. Kudos to you But.Enough.Already.’  In other words, ‘Shut the fuck up.’

A good friend will never post that in response to your endless commentary but a good many of them probably have the immediate thought when they read it. That is probably why most just kind of give your posts the swipe left treatment. It is more out of respect than disregard. After all they probably still enthusiastically validate those rare pet, food, flowers, clouds, travel, and family posts when they scroll to them.

And therein lies the counter to shutthefuckism. Diversify your brand. Mix up the posting persona. The occasional well thought out statement is profound. It’s insightful. It gets a thumbs up. Carpet-bombing an opinion is redundant. It generates mass casualties of insouciance.

Fret not weary warrior.  The Political Season is nearly over.  By decree of the gods it is followed by the Holiday Season and that should give you plenty of opportunity to rekindle the all the 💖