Settling

MY BROTHER-in-LAW is a conservative Republican, and Christian. That's my opinion, and I feel confident he would verify its truth. He is among my many ideological opposites, and so be it. He and I get along great, as many of them and I do, becaues we never talk about religion or politics, or at least rarely and in restrained fashion. My sixth grade teacher told us to never discuss religion or politics, and I have spent my entire life opposing this wisdom - until now. Now, i practice it. What I like about my brother-in-law is his intelligence and willingness to listen, open mindedly, without bias, and the fact that he is not an extremist, has not used his enthusiasm for his political and religious beliefs to coalesce into a far right extremist religious-political viewpoint, with religion and politics deeply intertwined. You know the type; the "Trump was put in power by Jesus and the Lord" type, the insufferables. My brother-in law is amazed that so many of his fellow christian conservatives continue to support Trump. HIs notion is that trump's behavior has been so obviousl, veriviably bad on so many occasions, with seemingly more to come, that it makes no sense to support his plitical campaign ambitions, that the time has long since come for Republicans to choose a new leader. To your average secular progressive Democrat, nothing could be more obvious, but to most MAGA members this reasoning is unthinkable, blasphemous, incomprehensible. I have a good friend at the senior center who is my good friend partly because we never talk politics. He says hew would vote for Trump today, and will vote for him in the future. Yes, I fing this amazing. A glance into my friend's mind came the tie he told me that if ttwo men were applying for a job, one white, one black, the he would hire the more qualifiecgentleman, but that if the two we equally qualified, he would hire the white guy. That comment to me is a nearly explicit admission of being a racist. And I would be my house that my friend would insist that there is nothing "racist" about it. Fortunately, we'll never have that conversation. At least, I won't start one.