Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   and then there are Ran Paul and Lee! Date:   1/10/2020 1:28:25 PM

The lack of civility and outright anger is very disappointing.  I get the same reaction from my younger son, so steadfast and unwilling to even listen to a different view.  And in many cases those folks are just downright naive.  It is almost the old saying "don't confuse me with facts".  In general, IMHO Conservatives think and Liberals feel.  I have a bachelor's degree in chemistry, spent a career as a communications, then computer officer in the Air Force, and now work in cybersecurity.  Radio links were set up on paths determined by engineering principles, not because we felt like they would work.  Security configurations are based on analysis of known vulnerabilities and recognized countermeasures, not "lets do this and that because we feel like it would make us secure".  I made the mistake one time of asking my daughter-in-law if there was any scientific study that had cioncluded ingesting food that had been treated with hormones caused premature puberty in young girls.  Her crowning statement was "well, all you have to do is look at them to know it is true".  BTW, I did my own research on the subject and found two key considerations.  First, half of any hormones in meat we eat is digested and never enters the bloodstream as a hormone, and second, there is a medical opinion that premature puberty in girls is as much a factor of obesity as anything else.  Suffice it to say I exercised discretion and never brought it up with her again.

Just stick to your principles as you have obviously done by disengaging.  You can't let their problem become your problem.