So very sorry to read this, a bleeding ulcer is NOT worth it over these haters.
I guess the best you can do is just smile/smirk/laugh at those that choose to be crude....or just dense!
Agreed.
The ulcer developed over years of cognitive dissonance. At first, only a very few, the cadre, were obviously controlling and simply not making sense by any rational analysis. _I_(and some few others) was the odd-man-out in something resembling a Lord of the Flies remake. I could stand my own ground, at first, but it became obvious that it was a losing battle.
I broke away, made a different, saner life and new friends. Now, I have seen the exact same scenario work itself out 40 years later across the entire country. I’m not physically ill, exactly, at this point, but I am a lot older and half the country has become socialist, at the very least. I can ignore them,to a point (they are the customers of our businesses, our health care providers and the owners of a majority of the businesses in this area), but it isn’t just crudity or denseness: this is evil in that it openly desires the economic slavery of productive people, the eradication of traditional religion and the marginalization or death of anyone not on board the agenda. And these are the people in power. They _can_ do this and I believe they will.
I cannot smirk or laugh any longer.