the pandemic seemed to accelerate social media too many people with time on their hands easy to express frustration by ranting against anything and anyone we need politicians with firm core values who don’t bend to the ebb and flow of social media some politicians seem to think that SM represents the majority view while we all know that SM attracts the extremes giving them an easy voice talking to each other the silent majority are too busy with life but still notice how spineless politicians betray their core values bending over in the SM flow