Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

And social media has not helped with that because people are looking for what can go viral next.

There's like this viral thing.

theory that people you know they think that they can only be successful in their policy or their argument whether it's committee hearings or whatever they want that clip that they can post and they get notoriety for so social media has been both a blessing and a curse in this social media sphere because or in the political sphere because you can get your information out directly to the american people using it and refute bad information but then there's also this aspect of like i wish people could see the conversations that take place behind the scenes because it wouldn't be so inflammatory

Right.

It's definitely not something I want my son to do.

So when I first started out in politics, I started out as – so I joined the military at 19.

I paid my way through college.

I wanted to be a doctor.

So I got into a med school program at SU in Grenada.

And I was supposed to go to that.

And then I kid you not, like the day before I was supposed to leave, I got recruited to work for a nonprofit to basically help lead out Hispanic activism nationally.

And I thought that's how I could make a difference.

And then I realized that as part of that job, they're putting me on television.

I had a booker.

And so I was talking about stuff happening, but it was more more the commentary on inflammatory things.

I actually wanted to address what was happening with human trafficking.

And I actually requested the State Department's report.

I was a big activist with that.

I was working with a nonprofit at the time.

And I realized that they only wanted me to talk about what was getting them the ratings.