Social media is swamped with either/or questions. Some are frivolous — do you like blue or green? Cats or dogs? Summer or fall? Chocolate or vanilla?
The ones that make me nuts are those that are meant to rile up the left or the right, and make no sense. A recent one I saw was something like, “What do you support: health care for veterans or illegal immigrants?”
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