By the time this column goes off the press, the country's presidential election campaign season shall have officially started. From a social media standpoint, I get the feeling that the country's cyberspace will soon be experiencing a siege not unlike the massive zombie pandemic that threatened the world in the 2013 horror film 'World War Z,' the only difference being that well-equipped and well-funded social media trolls rather than zombies jumping out from their graves will be doing the siege.

I say this because for the past four weeks or so, there has been a very disturbing build up of troll regiments as well as slanderous and defamatory props right within the major social media web pages themselves. The troll army commanders are showing hardly any qualm or inhibition in doing this build up in plain sight of even a cursory observer. They use their own names and proudly show their own mug shots in their hateful postings, and on web pages linked to the social media platform itself, they have been assembling huge libraries of derogatory images and caricatures of their target enemies, complete with ready-to-use cue cards and scripts for instant use by their trolls.