Let’s give it a rest!

Stop and think about it for a moment. There are six months left before the Presidential Election. Six. Months.

Do we have to keep yammering on about Trumbernillary as if the election was tomorrow and this is our LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE WORLD?! Seriously, is there anything all that new to be said about any of them? Do we really think that with all the posts that have gone before it really all comes down to this one more post that crosses your feed, and if you don’t share it the evil blasterds will win?

Six. Months.

I promise you that if you unplug for the next five and not start paying attention again until October you won’t really miss anything. There will still be time to evaluate if everything you think you know about them has changed at all. There will still be more debates to watch. There will still be plenty of commentary, editorializing, and perhaps even some actual journalism to dig through in case you actually do want to know the facts.

About the only important thing likely to happen within the next five months is either Sanders or Hillary will have been forced to concede. Is that really worth paying so close attention between now and then? Most of us are long past having our say in the primaries/caucuses. Do we need to fill up our feed (and everyone else’s) with more political quackery? Let me summarize everything you’re likely to see between now and then:

• Politicians lie.
• So-n-so is the most vile human being to ever defile the earth.
• What Candidate X did really wasn’t so bad.
• This statement, when taken out of context, sounds really, really bad.
• People who support Candidate Y are total amoral loons without redeeming quality.
• If Candidate Q wins the world will destroy itself from the inside out within seconds.
• Celebrity B will move to Canada if Candidate J wins. (There will be no coverage whatsoever of how many celebrities threatened that last time but failed to follow through.)
• Why does everyone think what so-n-so did/said is such a big deal?
• Everyone who disagrees with me lacks perspective/honesty/integrity/intelligence.

Did I miss anything? I just saved you six months effort. You’re welcome.

I never thought I’d say this, but could we please see more pictures/videos of cats for a while? Or anything else that might actually remind us that life will somehow go on–at least until after the first Tuesday in November?

Seriously, folks. Six months. Save it for October. Please!