I have experienced living on both sides of the political divide. I was a member of SDS and an acid head hippie communard back in the day. Now I am a conservative, Christian, Republican who loves President Trump.
You would think that would give me some sympathy for the other side, since I’ve been there myself, but you would be wrong. When I was on the left I thought that those on the right were evil or morons or both. Now I see, clear as a ringing bell, exactly the same thing on the left.
Of course, no matter which side I was on, I never thought of myself as an evil moron. Looking back I don’t think I was evil, but Moron? definitely!
I don’t know for sure the moral to this tale. Maybe it’s just to remember that when you are looking into another human being’s eyes, that’s you you are looking at.
For those who wonder what I could possibly see, other than Adolf Hitler, when I look at Trump, it is this:
I don’t know Donald Trump personally, so all I have to work with is his public persona, or should I say, his many public personas.
I see a man with an IQ that is off the charts, who loves to win, who has dominated Manhattan real estate for decades, who loves his country, who has chosen to devote his remaining time, at great personal sacrifice, to fixing all the things about the governance of the United States that have been deeply troubling to him for a long time.
And he is succeeding. He is guy who fixes things that are broken. We are fortunate to have him. We shall not see his like again for a very long time.