For our Fact Members who are presently just reading....

Molly and I are fine. Thanks for think of us.

Mokkel:

I already knew you were fine because I was talking to you. Same goes for Bob. It's those who are presently just reading and not posting that I worry about. Someone could die and how would we know?

It happened before --once on Pierre's old board. A woman named Elaine died and we didn't realize it for months until her daughter logged in under her name and told us.

We have other international members. There's Arthur for example -- but I'm pretty sure he lives outside the city in the English countryside.

Ravi dropped by recently and said he moved out of England but I don't recall where he went.

I'm hoping he will let us know he's okay.

Offhand, I don't remember who else is from overseas -- but they were included in the hot spot comment.

There are hot spots in Europe and Asia as well.

I am primarily concerned with the problem under my nose. That doesn't mean I don't have friends or acquaintances in Europe.

I almost married a European. We stopped talking to one another over a year ago (after decades) because of our political differences.

He, believe it or not, has always been a liberal. But as a youth seemed to be a horse of a different color. Then, it appeared to be idealism. I found it -- at the time -- impractical as all hell -- but admirable from the sense that misguided as it was, I thought he thought he was "doing good".

As I've grown older, what I found charming in my youth is now extremely annoying. He should have grown up by now. And anyone who tries to excuse the rape of hundreds of young English girls as cultural issue is a complete and utter ASSHOLE. And I DO NOT give a tinker's damn what his mother told him about how women in WW2 "eventually got over it" when they were raped.

You don't excuse something because it's cultural and the victim might eventually get over it. He can kiss my kazoo.

He is now classified with other leftists -- nuts.

But no Mikkel -- I hope you will survive this pandemic and eventually wise up to the evil that is the Democratic party.

--Debutante

And I hope you will survive.

Now for classification.
I classify Reps as nuts, therefore they are nuts.
Versus I classify Dems as as nuts, therefore they are nuts.

Or:
I hope you will wise up to the evil that is the Republican party.
I hope you will wise up to the evil that is the Democratic party.

Now be a skeptic and do it with active critical thinking and skepticism for both POV.
Now I know that you can't and I know how that is.

That is the difference. Because there is 3rd position and one which I hold:
Neither Reps nor Dems are nuts as such and neither party is evil.
And as long as you don't understand this 3rd position, we will be talking past each other.

Mikkel