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Did you ever feel you have no opinion?

When it comes to politics, I pretty much go by what there is on social media. If people are saying Donald Trump is no good, I believe it after seeing the obvious reasons, but when a strange friend who says he was better than Hillary Clinton for so and so reason, I go blank and have nothing to say about why he was not. (Strange fact is, that friend was Mexican and she might have changed her opinion now, eh?) And when I know the pros and cons, like our great Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh, I have no idea which side to take. Hence, when in a conversation, I might have a little knowledge about topics but can't be adamant on my views. I take this as a biggest personality flaw. I mean, I am sick of being a polite and sweet kinda person, instead of a smart and intellectual one. Is it because I have no serious interests in world knowledge? To overcome the dilemma, I decided to go to the very best friend "google" and actually read "How to form opinions". (Yes, I