There's no getting around it. The content of certain blog posts just naturally turns all of us otherwise placid people into vitriol-spewing troglodytes, so I imagine this one is really going to set the comment-o-sphere ablaze. After all, it contains the words Trump, Cruz, Hillary, Obamacare and Bernie, along with the title of a much-beloved television program, The X-Files, all of which have no shortage of people who think various things about these subjects.
One cannot help but wonder what this blog post will provoke in readers when they discover that the names of a group of people involved in American politics have been included as its most prominent subjects. The public figures or policies referenced above certainly have a polarizing effect on the nation. And the recently rebooted X-Files is a show that has touched an entire generation, so a lot of readers will have strong feelings about it.
Still, perhaps the lack of any identifiable content, or indeed any discernible viewpoint in this post regarding the topics in the headline could mitigate any blowback. Although a lot of folks just read the headline and then get all worked up about it without checking out the body of the post, so there's that.
What's going to happen? What kind of sh*t storm will be set off by this utterly non-committal collection of syllables which takes absolutely no stand on anything and simply introduces the words Trump, Cruz, Hillary, Obamacare, Bernie and The X-Files into the debate? You know, I have reviewed the syntax on that previous run-on sentence six times now, and I am still unable to figure out if it tracks correctly when you read it. But this is the kind of unchecked passion that can come from working very hard to mean next to nothing while trying to find out if everyone will still get all bent out of shape.
I don't know how this is going to turn out, but it's like they say: if you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention.
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