I generally try to avoid conversations with leftids. I mean, what’s the point? You might as well be talking to the bird bath. I have no gift for it.
So this morning, walking home from the auto shop, I was hailed by an old black man on his porch, whom I hadn’t seen outdoors for months. “I’m glad to see you!” I said.
And somehow that opened up the floodgates.
Donald Trump is an agent of the devil. He is Putin’s servant. And a racist who hates women. And everyone who voted for him is a racist, too. And a hater. You’re all haters. (“I don’t hear a lot of love coming out of you,” I said; but he didn’t hear me.) He hates haters. And if you’re against abortion, you’re against “women’s health” and against women.
This went on and on. I guess it’s my penance for the day. Not really a conversation, because he never paused to let me get a word in. I thought he was my friend, at least sort of. He would say he is. And I call him “old” because he always makes a point of stating his age, which currently is 89. He and I have a lot of memories in common, pertaining to our home town. It would be nice to talk about those.
I suppose I could’ve just walked away while he was talking. He might not even have noticed. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Just had to wait until the opportunity presented itself.
*Sigh* If the possibility of mutually rewarding dialogue truly has passed away, what’s left? The strongest and most ferocious side wins? Is that how we’re going to live?
But that’s better than surrender.
Leftism has become a cult.
This guy has it all, the whole kit and kaboodle. OK, I did manage to escape before he started on the evils of Transphobia; but I’m sure that would’ve come up soon.
It is hard to imagine anyone 89 years old (that is exactly my age) thinking along these lines. If we have any memory left at all, we should certainly know better. I consider this even sadder than having young people think like this – after all, they never knew better.
It would have been nice to share some hometown memories with this man, but he wasn’t in the mood for it. He was still angry that Hillary didn’t get to be president.
People like that deserve a curse like Hillary. I feel sorry for them, but yet some degree of …well, you know.
It’s a shame that so many people live in the world of demagoguery, instead of processing facts and reasoning on them, using their own thinking ability.
Many of them don’t have that ability.
I’m beginning to think that the schools have created a generation of people that are incapable of original thought.
It’s not that they’re incapable. Rather, they’ve been taught that logical thought is a bad thing — patriarchal racist heteronormative white supremacist. And a few other adjectives, but I’m trying to type on my phone and my fingers are starting to cramp.
It’s clearly a myth that wisdom comes with age.