I had a most interesting exchange with an old friend this week...who says he once voted for Obama and now is solidly behind Trump. He more or less patted me on the head for being a loyal Democrat. I'm sort of sorry I held my tongue. But I am not for butting my heads with futility and Trump followers. Liberals like us are supposed to be open-minded and respect other opinions. I have almost lost old friends over politics, and there are, believe it or not, other ties that bind friendships than political compatibility. Like most conversations like this, I thought of what I should have said later. (Hells bells, Project 2025 would destroy whatever cause I have fought in politics as an office holder and an activist and journalist for 50 years..consumer and environmental protections, public transportation, voting rights, women's rights to control their health and destiny, and a strong defense of Europe, where the bulk of my family lives). He gave two reasons: our military is in bad shape, and the disaster at the border. I said my military contacts indicated nothing like that. (Who did he listen to, I wondered, the right wing that diversity watered down the white race blood in the military? Beginning with the preface of his opinion: "I voted once for a black man, Obama," was the defensive tip-off of his sensitivity to the racial element he would imply). I mentioned that the illegal crossings at the border were one half than months before (Slence and ignored, but I didn't pursue Trump's sabotage of the bi-partisan bill that would have gone far to fix the problem because nothing seems far enough for Trumpsters except putting 20K in concentration camps). Then I tried another tack: Trump is mentally unfit and dangerous because he is a narcissistic sociopath who will do what is good for him and his lust for power and not what's good for you and me. That was a "Who said that? Never heard that one", he responded. So I gave him some websites from Psychology Today on that one to contemplate and owed that one to our respective media silos, too, as I did the rest.
If any of the these fail to link: copy and paste their URL
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/202008/the-psychology-donald-trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/11/trump-new-york-times-00167529
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/donald-trump-criticism-from-former-administration-officials/index.html
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