I have a small, and shrinking, gaggle of leftist friends. It's interesting to see how they drop away over time. Just lost another one this morning. I always enjoyed this guy's company. We share many common interests and sense of humor. Great memories. We were on a three-way text chain where our mutual contact posted a clip of Jon Stewart pointing out that the Dems screwed up because they were proposing a leader who, now, doesn't seem to know if he approved many of the things that he officially approved. I joked (my damned sense of humor) that they lost because most "normal" people, when faced with the reality of all the wild overseas expenditures by USAID to do things like transing parakeets, don't approve. The leftist responded that I should stop getting my information "from YouTube" and that "it makes you look stupid". They always do this. 1- attack you for sources of information you don't use. Then, 2- insult you. Interesting pattern. I see it all the time. My leftist brother brought up a while ago, "...just got that from some kid doing a podcast from his parents' basement". That's a good one, really. Such statements really complicate the discussion - haha! It really avoids the issue at hand and goes after you AND your sources. Now, in order to continue the discussion, you've got a deeper hole to dig out of before you can even get up to common ground. It's brilliant, aside from being a total waste of time. And, therein lies the issue. I no longer have time for people who just want to say mean crap. Not angry about it. Just too busy. Too bad, really. But...eh...life goes on. I'm down to only two leftist friends now.

Reminds me of something Ayn Rand talked about that I never forgot. Love is something that occurs between two people who share the same values. That really has held up well over time, hasn't it? I don't really know what my leftist friends value anymore. It's not humor. It's not liberty. I think it's just come down to control and coercion, at any cost.