Are people allowed to change [View all]

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their thinking on an issue? If they do, are the ideas they have newly come to hold to be respected? If they held a belief in the past not in line with a position acceptable to you now, is that forever to be held against them? How do you go about seeing past the ideological walls to connect with the person behind them?

I'm asking because I have become increasingly impatient with the polarity of ideas on the political landscape. I have become deeply suspicious of those who cannot see the spectrum of needs and solutions that exist. We are losing our nation and world perpetuating these distances,

Last November, I suddenly became very ill and spent nearly two months in hospital. I've had a couple of hospitalizations due to complications since then. I still have one more surgery to go. A couple of times after surgeries, I felt myself slipping away. I don't know what pulled me back. The cacophony of screaming without reason and listening without discernment or concern is distressing. There is a world full of people who need to step back from the edge.