(09-28-2020, 08:51 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(09-28-2020, 08:34 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: How is it any different than what we have now? In my 49 years on planet Earth, I've never seen this country more divided and chaotic.

It's not as divided as the media wants you to believe.

I see it everyday in my own community and family. When anyone mentions politics, everyone takes sides and is ready to kill one another. I know people that were friends for years and now are no longer speaking, because they endorse different presidential candidates in this next election. Personally, I think it's idiotic to lose lifelong friends over an election, but it's happening. I have friends who are ultra conservative Trump fanatics and some who are super liberal. I don't care what they do. It's a free country. Whenever politics is mentioned, I'm like Switzerland. I tell them how I despise both parties and both presidential candidates and tell them I'm voting Libertarian. I then try to steer the conversation in another direction. One of two things happen when I do this. They either respect me for at least not voting for the "other side" and staying true to my convictions or they mercilessly preach to me why I need to vote for "their" guy. When this happens, I usually tell them I'd rather perish from "death by 1000 paper cuts" then to vote for either Trump or Biden and express that nothing they tell me will EVER change my mind. After several minutes, they realize I am serious and they give up. Eventually we start talking about something else, usually sports. 

I just don't know why some people are ready to "throw down" over an election between two senile, "old farts." It's ridiculous! This debate is gonna be like watching two dementia patients fighting over the last sugar packet in a low rent rest home.

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