I recently saw a viral post on Facebook that depicted a comment conversation where a man said that he was going to be fine when Obamacare was repealed because he had his insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace (ACA). The rub is that Obamacare and the ACA are the same.

Obamacare = Affordable Care Act = Healthcare.gov = being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition = why more services are free = why people can stay on parents' insurance until they are 26.

It isn't a good idea to trust viral posts on social media. Many times, they are false. However, I think the point of the post is important. Do your research. Even a short trip through Wikipedia is helpful.

Don't rely on once source of information. If you are liberal, read The American Conservative. If you can't handle that, read the Wall Street Journal. Conservatives should read the opinion section of the New York Times and listen to some of NPR's shows. If that is too grating, read the opinion section of the Washington Post.

There is a thing called confirmation bias. It means that we want to listen and read things that agree with what we already believe. When your high school and college instructors taught you critical thinking and research, they were trying to get you to fight confirmation bias. Humans are fallible. We are not perfect. We should have the humility to be open to the possibility that we might be wrong. The world is a big place. It isn't possible for one person to know everything. There is a reason well-educated and/or well-traveled people tend to be more liberal.

If you are so confident in your opinions that you refuse to consider that you are wrong...well, there are words to describe you, but I can't type them here.