I appreciate that observation and have made it myself many times when texting back and forth with my kids. I don’t lie and don’t appreciate being called a liar by someone who doesn’t know me at all. I could sit here and describe the hours and days worth of research and activism I’ve put in during my lifetime but it’s only words to you. I have no intention of defending myself from the rhetoric of someone who is not vested in my life or my heart. I don’t watch TV at all so I’m not sure how my mentioning a few RW news media outlets that I never said I watch and readily admitted caters to the right a bit just like LW caters to the left a bit turned into me becoming the biggest lying, fantasy dwelling reprobate on the planet but it did and you’ve practically written a book raking me over the coals with it as well as offering to get really tyrannical which I assume only meant in your texting.

To tell the t***h, I’m too busy trying to keep up with what our government is up to to waste time listening to all the media that just can’t keep from adding their own biased opinions as fact. I really am interested in the viewpoint you have but I don’t feel we can get anywhere with minds already made up and an intolerance for the other side that borders on phobia. I had some real questions that I asked you but you were so angry with me that you never even addressed them. In fact, I’ve been a bit confused by just how upset you seemed to be at me. I’ve read and re-read my responses and can’t find most of the triggers that set you off other than the part about the rudeness being on both sides. I thought I explained myself. I admit that although I do feel the left is highly emotional and hard to have a conversation with, the right can be a bit hardheaded. I just want to get along with people from all sides of life without having beliefs that are not my own shoved down my throat and the throats of my children. I could never tolerate a lot of the left’s beliefs in my own life but I can appreciate that everyone should have the right to what they want as part of their own as long as it doesn’t infringe on those same rights others have. I don’t need you to believe just like me to be able to share our world together. It used to work just fine. Don’t you wonder what happened?

My son is gay and that causes some parents to ostracize their child. I’m a Christian so you can imagine how it hit me but I believe he has the right to live his life according to his own beliefs. I would never condemn him because I have my own sins to answer for one day. I don’t have to agree with you to care about you. My fears are for us all regardless of who did what or how so and so believes. You are a person deserving of happiness and freedom and I hope we will always have the right to pursue it on our own path. I believe we would get along just fine. I have opinions and make observations but when discussing the messiness of human feelings I try very hard not to judge outright. I’ve had a lot of difficulties in my life and it has taught me that life can shape a person in a way you might not agree with but we all survive the best way we can and no one has a right to say, “you didn’t survive right.” I believe escaping victim hood is paramount to real freedom so I spent my life refusing to be one and helping others to do the same. I hope we’ve reached a middle ground that we can move forward from. I will never scoff at someone with real questions and a real desire to make a difference but I don’t assume to know you well enough to take you to task for something I have no clue about. There are far to many nuances to the human heart and mind to believe I could ever know who you really are or what you are really like after only a few emotionally heightened texts. I will use words like I think, I believe but I try to make it obvious that it’s my personal opinion or just my interpretation of what I’m hearing, reading or seeing.

Thank you for clarifying the tone of the texts. I wish you the best of days and I hope maybe we can start again. I think any two people can start a bridge. It might as well be us since we’ve already hit each other’s thumbs with the hammer.