Bumped into a high school friend for the first time in 30 years.

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36. That's a big part of the problem.

Avoiding political discussion keeps them from hearing anything that might make them think.

And while I understand that a lot of liberals have reason to avoid a public confrontation, that reinforces the problem. Every time one of them spews crap unchallenged, everyone around gets the impression that it must be right because no one said otherwise.

That leads to a lot of the inattentive public voting R because they don't know better, but they "heard some stuff".

I never let them say crap without getting a response. Mainly because I'm a grouchy asshole, but I realized that the point of challenging them isn't the unlikely chance of them listening and thinking, but all the people overhearing who will then hear a rebuttal as well as the bullshit instead of just the bullshit.

A side benefit was that it made my trips to the Y a lot better as there wer 4-5 Bush lovers who became tRumphumpers that just stopped turning the tv to Fox and stopped discussing their crap around me.

I'm sure they hate me, and I welcome their hatred.