I'm No Longer Invisible On Facebook -- At Least Not Today

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Do you ever feel invisible on Facebook? Do your friends hardly ever indicate in any way they've seen your posts? That's what often happens to me. I get an occasional "like," and once in a blue moon someone will make a comment, but other than that, silence. Today I found out how to change all that. Post something expressing an opinion about the coming American election candidates. I posted what I thought was a rather bland comment about how establishment Republicans all pressured Trump to sign a pledge to support the eventual party nominee and not to run third party if he lost the primaries. He finally signed, as did all the other candidates. I posted that I thought it ironic that everyone pressured Trump to sign and that after everyone signed, at least two of the establishment candidates are now saying they will not support Trump as they promised. They pressured him to sign and signed themselves when they thought he could never win the nomination. Now it is inconvenient for them to honor their word. Some of them are organizing to run an independent candidate with the aim of deliberately helping Hillary win. People are showing their true colors and how much their word can be trusted. That kind of stirred up a hornet's nest on Facebook. I had even forgotten I'd started the discussion , but I saw all these comments on the post. Oddly enough, it was one of my close friends who is the most anti-Trump. She knew Trump was not my first choice, but I never expected her views to be this extreme. It was my writer friends that agreed with me most. I'm please to report that even with the wide gulf between our viewpoints, no one was rude. They are, after all, my friends. They know how to discuss ideas without personal attacks. Personal attacks never won a person over. It's too bad more political discussions can't be more civil and respectful.