hmmm...not exactly sure about that.
At the time I couldn’t have know she had “issues” (mental/emotional) and I just happened to be the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It would have been worse if I had been home all day every day...but I wasn’t...I spent a giant chunk of my time at a local gym, so that was my oasis.
As far as conservatism? I definitely learned many important lessons...a bully cannot be reasoned with. You have to figure out their language and speak it forcefully.
I also learned that even if you are going to get pounded - if all you do is land one good shot, they’ll think twice before they do it again.
“pounded”...
LOL sorry it’s not a funny subject, but there’s a word I hadn’t heard since being a kid.
I was meaning more, as a victim. You resolved the problem to the extent possible, via the gym. I’m just wondering about kids who don’t find a way out. Overwhelming odds, lack of something which brings them to whatever brings some sort of way out - who just internalize it.
Later when they grow up, projecting onto others the bully or the problem, and dedicating themselves to punishing those who now to them, represent the bully.
It’s something like that. Liberals clearly are in large part, about deliberately poking those they do not agree with, in the nose.
It’s the sort of psychic issue, which starts in childhood.
Liberalism isn’t about tolerance.
Liberalism is about revenge.