re: #7 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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You know, the raging TP people and flat-out nazi racists are bad, but they’re not the ones who are really killing the country. That would be people like a lady I know, nearing 70, who is a born-again Southern Baptist and really in some ways the best sort of Christian. She does many good and charitable works that take a great deal of time and effort on her part, including doing good things for my very aged mother. But her first way of evaluating other people begins with whether they’re “saved” or not, and then strays off into the serious weeds. She told me that she voted for Trump because he was a great businessman. When I asked her how a great businessman could bankrupt two casinos, she said she didn’t know anything about that, had never even heard about it because she didn’t read or watch the news, although her husband watches Fox. When I told her that she could check out the casino bankruptcies on the Net, she said we’d just have to agree to disagree.

There’s a wall of not only ignorance but also of desire to remain ignorant that is far worse for us than any wall we could build along the Mexican border, or the Canadian border, or on every coastline in between.

I have no idea what to do about it, beyond tossing this inconsequential little post into the stream.