by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I don’t know what to tell you on this one. Over the last few days, I’ve begun to get a steady trickle of new followers who obviously hate my politics. It’s a very surreal experience.
In a way, a follower is a follower and should some third party look at my follower list and it’s 10,000 people, they won’t care much if a third of them hate my guts.
I suppose I should tone it down some if people who are at the polar opposite of the political spectrum want to use me as some sort of confirmation that they should start a civil war. Ugh.
But I am who I am. I generally mean well, or, as the late Annie Shapiro said of me, I’m a “delusional jerk with a good heart.” It is a testament to how fucked up our political system is that someone such as myself, who thinks of myself as a “moderate” has become a “radical moderate” because of the rise of MAGA Nazism.
And, by definition, to have really strong opinions on Twitter is inevitably going to draw attention to you and, as such, you get hate followers.
