A rare (for me) encounter with a Drumpf/MUSK lover.
It was a driver for one of those call-in outfits. I've always been a chatter, or tried to engage people out of robot roles, when they're amenable. Most times with remorse as an outcome.
We talked about his recent graduation with a degree in IT after his rough journey in dropping out of school three times, and his hopes for his prospects, which he’s fairly secure about. Smart dude. Inevitably, I turned it to politics and sure enough he turned out to be one of those “fair minded” types although leaning heavily/fully to the DRUMPF side. First he bemoaned the horrible polarization, but knee-jerked over to the “BOTH SIDES do it.” I zapped THAT to an immediate shut-down. Then, with real gentlemanliness, he said, “If you want, we can just not talk about politics if it bothers you.” I said that my reaction would not be an explosive, psychotic outbreak, although I would be clear about delineating the wingnut errors, that I would feel frustration and banging my head on a brick wall but wouldn’t EXPLODE. So I gave him a brief history about how LIMBAUGH resuscitated what had been the discredited state of the lunatic wingnut movement and instituted the polarization/Scorched Earth thing we’re in now. We chatted on and ended civilly, me acknowledging we would never coincide.
Repeating, one of the eternal questions, how can a DECENT human ever be a wingnut, not a question.
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