I was long the liberal black sheep of a conservative family. Where I grew up, the local preceinct GOP caucused in a large church. Dems usually met in someone's living room. Really. I'm conservative on a few things, liberal on others. My family has grown more liberal overall, but still some stalwart conservatives (none voted for Trump, however...I asked). When my staunchly conservative mother started voting for Dems and talking about saving the whales, I started looking in her back yard for alien pods. She now even opposes beating kids, which would have been really helpful 50 years ago.
These boards used to be a lot more free-wheeling, IMHO. Many of the old guard are missing, and while there was always a bit of Darwin's Waiting Room element to this place, it seems like more and more it's staffed largely with Fox "News" studio crowds. Honestly, I had to take a little break recently after just...too...much...Kool-Aid. I MAY vacate the premises because of it. Y'all are free to say what you like and I'm not about to tell anyone here what you can say. However, I don't have to like it, and I don't have to abide it. Creating a political board was supposed to help channel those energies, but you folks spout what you like. And if I split, I'll let the door hit me wherever I damned well please, thank you.
Incidentally, I oppose ANY party that runs up a trillion dollar deficit in one year. Cripes, I don't even have kids, and I seem to be more worried than most people about what will happen one day when the U.S. can no longer find a lender. Global economic collapse...if we haven't burned down the planet before then. I mean, I get (but disagree with) pandering to the oil industry, coal, etc., as a political strategy or philosophy, but light bulbs? WTH?
#7 Some day we should go to a pistol range. I'll bring my .357 and .44. As for the rest, polite golf clap
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