At some time in the near future, you may receive from someone a reposting on Facebook of something I have created specifically for the purpose of having it reposted as much as possible.

You have no idea who I am, whom or what I might represent, or the sources from which I have derived my information or ideas.  But I shall now ask you to imagine a heartwarming – or heartbreaking – scenario involving some or all of the following:  pets, babies, the American flag, people I think you should hate or love, and situations I think you should be supportive of, outraged over, or moved to tears by.  I will then say something which will be intended to sound terribly wise and profound, but which is actually pretty shallow and ill-thought-out.  It will, however, seem to make perfect sense in the context I provide.

With a little luck, this posting will continue to pop up on FB news feeds for years to come and long after everything I tell you has been completely debunked by reasonable and intelligent people who have bothered to check the facts.

Let’s see who reposts this and receives untold wealth and numbers of new FB friends, and demonstrates that they are the kind of people who have made this country great; and how many will fail to repost and thus demonstrate to millions of people world-wide that they hate God, America, me, and each of those millions’ of FB users’ individual mothers – simply because I have said so.       

  

I will predict that only 3% of you will repost -- a number which I have pulled directly out of thin air with no actual data to support it.  I will also claim that those who repost are my only true friends and that I know who you are; thus insuating that failing to repost is proof that you don't love me.

 

Have  a nice day.              

dsh