I also just finished CARELESS PEOPLE. I can hope to ignore what I know but apparently my brain has other ideas.

I speak as someone who simultaneously alleviates and exacerbates her anxiety with being a political junkie and never, not once, has any of the data I’ve accumulated changed a damn thing. I hurt my own feelings chasing the news dragon and it’s completely unhelpful. Social media benefits billionaires.

Most of us have absolutely zero immediate political juice and might, in fact, feel less anxious if we spent the time we put into absorbing every single nuance of today’s political theater into actual local, grassroots, boring democracy.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME.