In February 2017 I posted a meme on Facebook, as I did most every morning.
And so, after seven years of of diligent daily effort, I became an overnight success.
It went viral:
By the end of the day, my 900 followers had become 2500. I was getting friend requests so fast I could barely keep up with accepting them. (It was an amazing feeling.)
Of course, Facebook put a stop to that, with shadow-banning and suppression of political content. Organic reach is just a fond memory, these days.
The Algorithm giveth, and the Algorithm taketh away. But either way, the internet is now the context for everything in American politics, business, and culture.
Well, the Republicans in the Ohio statehouse are trying to ban the purchasing of soda with food stamp benefits.
The same people who bleated hysterically when Michelle Obama *suggested* that they give their kids more fruits and vegetables to eat think it’s their prerogative to tell poor people what they can feed *their* kids.
So the liberals don’t have anything close to a monopoly on moral judgement of the underclass.
However, I think that remains one of the central problems of the modern Democratic Party.