I have taken a break from politics as it has become too virulent for me. Discourse has turned into name-calling and profanity. Its not spirited debate anymore it’s an attack on me personally which fortunately for me I don’t take personally because the attackers don’t know anything about me except their perceived notion of the politics I represent. Too bad too because I am a reasonable man and when confronted in a reasonable way with a cogent argument I will think about it and if there is merit to it either respond with my view or even change or modify my own. Isn’t that what debate is all about? No it seems my antagonists and I have to frame them with that word because they have determined in advance that they think they know who I am. It’s sad because they don’t. One thing I think I have determined though is that some of the friends that have departed my company have decided that any view that doesn’t coincide with theirs is a personal attack on them. This epiphany has made it all the more clear why some have reacted the way they have. Everyone isn’t a racist, a misogynist, a fascist, a white supremacist simply because you say so. Yes a break I need until the Country if ever let’s go of the diatribe they seem hell bent on. I am just too old for this crap.
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