Some people say, "Never talk about religion or politics because people get really mad."
When I was a child lots of people talked about politics and / or religion, and people didn't kill each other over it.
When I think about the idiot in Minnesota who murdered two Democrats last week and tried to murder two other Democrats - and had a long list of other Democrats he wanted to murder, I wonder - is he a representative of the so-called "conservative" Republicans?
(Going out in the dark of night wearing a mask and murdering people is hardly "conservative." That's more like - radical.)
His roommate at his part-time living space near his work said Mr. Boelter is a Trump supporter.
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My dad used to tell the story of my Aunt Emmy saying he (my dad) had "brainwashed" my mother to be a Democrat.
He told it with delighted, low-key humor.
Dad: "She said, 'You brainwashed her!'"
In 1952 the presidential election race was between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
In 1953 my parents got married.
In 1956 the presidential election was again a contest between Republican Dwight Eisenhower (then the sitting president) and Adlai Stevenson.
My theory is, that in 1952 my mom voted for Eisenhower (the campaign buttons said, "I like Ike") and then in 1956, she voted for Stevenson, along with my dad.
(I was not born yet.)
And somehow that came up in conversation, and Aunt Emmy was taken aback to find out that Mom (Alice, to them) had changed over and voted for someone in the "other" party.
It must be because my dad "brainwashed" her.
LOL.
Aunt Emmy seemed to have felt that my mother should vote her own mind.
And this was even before "women's liberation."
I agree with Aunt Emmy.
And with my parents, for voting for Adlai Stevenson.
(As Reb Tevye says in Fiddler On The Roof, "You are right. - And you, also, are right." ...)
John F. Kennedy; Adlai Stevenson
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