General Discussion

There are some that I don't waste time with, but I don't write them off. They choose to have blinders on, but one day they could choose to believe the opposite -- not because they have seen the light, but because they get tired of the same stuff after a while.

I have a friend -- and I actually do consider him a friend and colleague -- who was just impossible a year ago. I had him pegged as a hard core MAGA person because he criticized everything about Biden, Harris, and most other Dems. However, over time, I came to realize that his real philosophy was Any Rand libertarianism.

Well, he is smart enough (he has a PhD in Physics) to recognize that Trump is really bad news for liberties and especially for the 1st Amendment. These days, he barely mentions Dems and he is red hot in his hatred for Trump and the whole MAGA scene.

That doesn't mean he would ever vote for a Dem, but at least it is a case of "an enemy of my enemy is a friend. IN my case, I said we have continued to be friends, and he has been a lot easier for me to take these days. I support most of his arguments about the first amendment and personal freedoms, and I think maybe he has gained a little respect for those of us to were much quicker to recognize the existential threat that Trump poses.