“I have several lib/leftist acquaintances. Their thinking is SO warped that you cannot have an intelligent, rational, reasonable discussion/conversation with them on anything but the most mundane, nonpolitical topics’
Try this next time.
Don’t disagree with them agree with them and make even more bazar leftist statements than they are making.
If they disagree with your bazar statements go directly into name calling, hater, racist, denier, right wing extremist, just the same as they always do.
Let them see themselves.
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To be honest, I don't have the energy for that, I am very much focused on trying to exclude people from my sphere of getting along on this earth who are intransigent and who suck the joy out of my life. It's just not worth the negativity. It's like the Bible says .... Matthew 10:14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. I take the time to state my case - pro God, pro life, pro traditional family & marriage, pro 2A, conservative, anti big government, etc. at which point they are upset/enraged to the point of being screaming meemies, and then I shake the dust (& them) off my feet and move on.