I lack the patience to have a conversation with someone who is voting against their own self-interests [View all]

[Miles Archer]

The problem with a conversation is that, in its ideal sense, it's about two people with potentially opposing viewpoints having a calm and rational exchange, which may or may not involve one or both having a new perspective at the end.

FOLKS...I am assuming some of you feel the same way...I have decided that my life is TOO SHORT to spend it listening to people "explain" why they voted for Trump three times, ESPECIALLY WHEN...as in a story I posted a few days ago on DU...they say things like "I voted for him three times, and I made a mistake, but would I vote for him again? I dunno."

And I don't want to run down the list of people who DID clearly vote against their own self-interests because I don't want to violate the "no bigotry or insensitivity" rule.

So imagine a MOUSE. A cute, adorable little whiskered dickens, living in your house. And outside of the hole that he uses for his front door is a big sign, "MICE FOR HOUSE CATS."

Because really, he's a mouse, and the house cat would only protect him and never even think of hurting, or eating him...right?

The more Trump hurts his voters, the more they're speaking out and saying they "might have" made a mistake, and when asked if they'd do it all over again, far to many of them are saying "I don't know" or "maybe."

So I don't have the answers for the midterms. There are two options:

1). Full steam ahead, under the assumption that we either can't reason with Trump voters, or that if we do, we have to spend countless hours hugging them and telling them that we understand them, or

2). We just decide to become full-time counselors, and we let them vent, and we sit and patiently listen to all of the reasons why they felt that Trump was Jesus Christ, returned to earth to walk among us again in human form.

Maybe there's a middle ground in there somewhere. If there is, I haven't seen it.