Just yesterday, a active GOPe Party faithful sweetly affirmed to me that “the pendulum will swing because we (GOP) will find a way to appeal to all those hard-working Hispanics”.
I asked her what she was smoking. I told her the GOP was committing suicide because those hard workers were taking out more than they were putting in and had no reason to vote for a pandering R when they already have pandering Ds. She agreed that we were being eliminated, demographically. She agreed there had been voter fraud. But, she is very comfortable in her position and her normalcy bias is deeply set. In her world, America will come back as it once was when “the pendulum swings”. She will vote R and support Rubio or Jeb. She cannot stand Palin. She is not enthused w/being lumped in w/conservatives. She does not want to hear anything that makes her feel uncomfortable. She obviously thinks I have become a kook.
She is also very confident that _her_ 401k will not be taxed or diminished in any manner, simply because she is smart and has *plans*. She works in corporate investing for a major bank that took over a failing bank in the past few years. Her husband owns an insurance agency.
She couldn’t refute even one of my points, but she also couldn’t accept any of my conclusions. I doubt we will ever speak again. It was exactly like having a conversation with the Borg.