And here's honoring you FRiend. As Rush said, "Life is like a roll of toilet paper ... the further along, the faster it goes." Getting old and worn is tough. It sneaks up on us.
But it sounds like you are handling your situation, and things might turn out better than you think right now. Take care and take every day - one at a time, which is really how it always is, even if we don't know it.
While we have argued politics for years and years, he would get his feelings hurt and never want to speak to me again. Yet after a while he would contact me again to chat until once more he got his liberal feeling hurt. Wash, rinse, repeat—
So I answered his e-mail as follows with edits to keep out his name:
The world we grew up in the 1950s and early 1960s had its flaws but as far as I an concerned was a happy time. The principles, values and morals I got from my father and mother are as clear today as back then. As you know the Democratic Party was damn near the rule in those days here in Texas but in truth and I even believe you would agree that the Texas Democrat Party back were almost 90% Conservative against the 10% that followed liberal Ralph Yarborough and they would almost to the man be Republicans today.
You see, we Republicans follow the principles, values and morals set forth by the forefathers that created the United States and wrote the Constitution. As an example, about gun control we do not demand that any one person own a gun. It is their right to own one and keep it for the personal defense if they wish. If one does not want one and wished to rely solely on the police to give them protection. that's fine also.
Now, your side of the room demands I give up my right to own any gun they feel is dangerous, i.e. so called ‘assault’ rifle that just look mean but are no different from many other semi-automatic ones in the ability to kill game or bad guys—
And those of us who disagree with your crowd are branded to be as evil as Hitler.
Your side wants no bail for bad guy who can kill and kill again after being released with no cash bond. Your side also wants open borders and if so, what the hell is good about being a citizen? How can you have a nation if there are not borders? Your side creates ‘sanctuary cities’ where Federal Immigration Laws are rejected and not enforced by the locals. You know the southern states tried something along that line about a hundred and sixty some odd years ago and over 600,000 died horribly before the issue was decided that Federal Law is the law of the land. Does your side really want that to happen all over again?
Your side feels a woman can have her unborn child murdered at any time including as they are about to be born. I know how that feels for in my youth I once paid for an abortion because she did not want to have a kid then as she was married to someone else. She made the decision and I went along with it but there is not a damn day that goes by that I do not morn the death of my only child that was paid for by me!
Yet anyone who disagrees with abortion on demand is again a no count a-hole and again evil. Matter of fact your side constantly puts any opposition in the evilness realm. Watch TV the past few days and see how your side places anyone in the Senate who supports Donald Trump as dastardly folk covering up for a man who is again more evil that Hitler—
I, as a Conservative Republican, have no problem with disagreement on the political front but your Democratic Party side does not just disagree, they paint me and my ilk as evil son-of-a-bitches intend on nothing good.
My side wants to get along and have every one do as they wish under the Constitution as written while your side want to dominate, demand and control every single quarter of everyone’s life to do as they wish and “only” as they wish.
I love you, and will always do so. I appreciate your offer of support in my battle to improve my ill health, but my respect cannot hold forth as long as you tread the current liberal Democratic Party path of making me and fellow Republican the scum of the earth for our views.
In the forlorn hope you will some how understand, I am
Always your loving cuz,
Danny
I wonder how, and if, he will respond--