Today, just like many other days, I open my Facebook to read the news of the day as curated by those I have friended; old high school friends, college buddies, and work acquaintances alike.

To my dismay, and what is now become an expected daily dismay, I am greeted with more FAKE NEWS. This time the Catholic school boys from KY video and the accompanied slanted articles. I must have counted at least 5 of these in the first 3 minutes of scrolling through my (fake) news feed.

Because I have seen the full video and not just a 2 minute narrative, I know this is not what it seems.

Yet I sit there reading the posts as an an internal anger grows:

"I used this opportunity to teach my children on how not to act and we wrote a letter to this Kentucky school asking for the expulsion of these students. It's disgraceful!" said one.

"I think each of these teenagers should be ordered to do community service, but I don't think they understand the word community" said another.

It went on and on.

I wanted to set the record straight. I began to write a rebuttal to the first-mentioned comment:

"maybe you can use this opportunity to teach your children about fake news and the need to do your own research"

ahhh…. no, that is too mean I say to myself. I must have written 10 replies and erasing the words I write before posting.

It was a pretty annoying and worrisome process of about 20 minutes before I finally closed the Facebook app without writing a thing. Problem is this isn't the first time this whole process has happened to me. In fact it is probably the third time in the last week and lord knows how many times since the election.

I keep biting my proverbial digital tongue and don't reply. Yet I am worried I am not the only one and I feel like it has to change. People are formulating their opinions based off incorrect information. If this stuff doesn't go unchecked, the country becomes more and more divided.

I have come to the conclusion that I have an unshakable fear. A fear of being outed as a Trump supporter in a public forum. I see how brainwashed and backwards these people are on the daily. I believe that my attempts to bring sanity to the conversation will be met with more uncontrollable insanity that could escalate to unwanted situations.

But there has to be a line somewhere right? I am sure there is somewhere. I just don't know where it is yet. I am writing this out today as a prayer that I have the strength and the ability to open eyes without escalating tensions further for when that time and situation comes.

PEACE my fellow anon brothers and sisters!