Florida governor's race poll

[Sympthsical]

54. Yeah, but that's why it's annoying

I don't see everyone who doesn't think like me as an irredeemable enemy. To the cloistered, sunlight is an irritant.

I think partisanship is very corrosive. I understand why politicians and those who work within that structure need to be partisan - it's the system. But I don't see why, as a regular person just slumming around life, I'd want or need to be that in all things at all times. It sounds completely wearying. It also generally requires an existence steeped in untruth. "Oh, they're all evil Nazis, Gabriel?"

When people are throwing Nazi terms at Steve Kornacki, it's like a window into an existence that seems completely miserable and anxious. I want to ask, "Is getting up even fun in the morning?" Because it doesn't sound very fun.

I have never gotten into it over politics in person. Just . . . ever. I'm trying hard to remember a single time where I've thrown down at random. People don't typically do that. I've never seen it outside of the odd viral video where the people involved don't seem entirely well-adjusted. That's why all the grocery store fantasias are funny. I never believe them (because they're not believable) and people don't generally act that way. It's all very, "And then I saw the baby, and the baby winked at me." Thanks, Ralph.

I have a Republican neighbor (about 100 feet from my house suburban becomes suddenly rural, so there's a fair few). He's fine. We've discussed car things and his son going into the Navy. He knows I'm gay. No one cares. "Welp, have a nice day." It's not difficult.

The Internet is easier to look at it sociologically like it's middle school. People get together, then have to one-up each other to show how much belonging they can belong to the other belonged. It's always more outrageous, more proof of credentials, more Scottish (who have ruined Scotland).

There are times when I want to say something and just opt for silly. Or do silly. The other day, I had someone argue incontestable science about something I'm currently in college studying and it was just . . . I just wandered off to the kitchen to do finger guns while listening to Abba. Not every leaf in the yard requires picking up.

(My partner would hotly contest that metaphor. Autumn is his hellscape. That's why it's red and orange)