I think I'm starting to remember why I stopped making political statements and being outspoken with my beliefs online.

Unless someone is explicitly asking you, or they're going to a discussion/reading an article/otherwise intentionally engaging you specifically to hear your opinion, the most you're going to do is preach to your choir and get angry people yelling incoherently at you who ignore any logic and sources, and counter it with false/debunked information, endless emotional pleas, or strawman scapegoats with no basis in reality.

So many otherwise-reasonable, intelligent people have a complete inability to look at something as not being black-and-white, and an utter refusal to even consider for a second that they could be wrong and the other guy might be right. It's not worth the headache, especially over the internet. You're engaging someone who is, at best, going to shirk away and avoid you, and at worst, they're going to start stalking you and pointing out every time you screw up. If they're not specifically looking to hear what you have to say, be it by following you on bookface or bumblr or tweetybird or anything else, or by specifically asking you, all getting into a discussion with them will do is start a fight. There are no civil debates on the internet anymore, just yelling matches, except instead of volume being important, since there's no volume in text, now the winner is decided by who uses the most words(Bigger words are better too, so make certain that when pontificating on the subject matter that you're particularly and overbearingly loquacious and indulgent)

I still believe what I believe, and if you ask me or read my blog or anything else specifically looking for my opinion, you're going to get it. I'm not going to shove it at people, but on an outlet specifically to allow me to express such opinions, or when explicitly asked to share them, I will divulge them. But I'm done fighting with people that refuse to hear anything but "you're right, sir or madam. I was truly a fool to disagree. Thank you for showering me with your intellect." and I'm done trying to change people's minds by admonishing them and trying to force reality down their throat. It doesn't work.

And please, read the tags before commenting. I know how applicable this is to stuff that's been happening here, but it is not referring to anything on here. I swear.