General Discussion

your profound political differences.

I have several right-leaning relatives. I'm still on speaking terms with them, but we can't talk about politics.

I suppose that I could bombard them with articles and computer links detailing the iniquities of the current administration and its political enablers, but I'm resigned to the fact that they probably won't read them, let alone believe them.

I'm not happy about it.

As that Bible some of them read but many of them choose to ignore states : "There are none who are so blind as they who will not see," and members of the Religious Right, particularly Evangelical Protestants, aren't willing to perform reality checks on whether their avatar (s) are performing good deeds or living righteously.

I am unhappily resigned to the fact that when it comes to Orange Julius and his fan clubs and enablers, I probably won't be the one to wise them up. They aren't going to listen and they don't want to hear it from me. If they wise up, they are going to have to learn the hard way when their hero and his political allies tear massive holes in the social safety nets they unwisely chose to trust to their care. And I believe that Incumbent will try. Judas Iscariot has nothing on the narcissistic, amoral, corrupt individual currently ensconced in the White House.

I suspect that many of what's-his-name's followers will never admit that they were mislead or were wrong. I do hold out hope that some, like the Prodigal Son in the New Testament, will wake up someday and notice that they'd gone on a bender and are in deep trouble. Not only that, that it wasn't the "libs," it wasn't Joe Biden, it wasn't Hillary Clinton, it wasn't George Soros, but it was the galaxy of scammers, charlatans and liars who deceived them and that they'd been fools to trust them.

I woulld close with this caveat: wising up after a spree is usually an inside job.