At what age. My father, in his 80s, is not so politically shrewd any more but boy he loves to talk about ways he thinks are wrong and ignore everything anyone says, repeating himself over and over and over and over, like a certain political party.Kraken wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 1:51 amMy dad had strong opinions and so did I, when I got old enough to form some, but I was so naive that he demolished me every time. He didn't change my mind, but he made me stop arguing when he backed me into supporting Castro. The old man loved to argue and I was an unworthy teenage opponent.
I often wonder what he'd make of today's political landscape. I like to think we'd have some common ground. I was glad that he didn't live to see Abu Ghraib because that violated everything he believed about America as a WW2 vet. But he did become reactionary in his last few years, as we so often do.
Politics weren't part of my mom's world at all. She voted as she was told and never talked about it.
I suppose it's another thing I will need to guard against becoming.