Information warfare

This feels like an attack of war, not with tanks and guns but with words: This is information warfare and it’s powerful. It took out our presidency. It can take our country, ruin us, even the whole civilized world, if we don’t stop this.

Americans have got to learn when they’re being conned. And the news that came through Twitter and Facebook was fake, it was a con.

We must apply thoughtfulness. We must think, not react from the gut level of base emotion. We cannot be a nation of people who have a kneejerk reaction to everything we hear or think we hear. If we do, we are sheep, not fully human. And not just any ol’ sheep: We are Putin’s sheeple.

Ask yourself: Are you American or Putin’s wannabe lapdog? People, pay close attention to your vote next time, 2018.

MARIANNE BEASLEY

Fayetteville