Case in point (although there are certainly others):
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/10/23/online-liberals-once-again-show-their-ignorance-on-the-issue-of-immigration-after-trumps-coyote-comment-n2578675

Ben Rhodes was wrong on many (well, all) policies, and something of an ethically challenged person, but he was spot on correct about many journalists when he derided them as young and ignorant enough to imbibe whatever Snake Oil Obama chose to sell them.

https://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/why-a-liberal-journalist-brought-the-house-down-on-obama-fabulist-ben-rhodes/

As for the old and experienced, well, they are just being duplicitous.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/10/22/trump-turns-the-tables-on-60-minutes/

It speaks well of your character and that your friend seems to value your friendship above politics. Patience and grace may overcome indoctrination.

One of the biggest unacknowledged issues in today’s politics is that a great many Democrats/liberals are mindless followers of whatever they read in the mainstream media. Conservatives can have their own media bubble, of course, but there’s actually a decent amount of intellectual and political diversity between Fox News, talk radio, the blogosphere, and now the social media and podcast folks. And it’s virtually impossible to consume conservative media without getting at least SOME exposure to what the other side is saying.

But the mainstream media is operationally and ideologically monolithic and goes out of its way to avoid covering certain stories beneficial to the Right. It produces people like your friend who think they’re well-informed but are actually quite ignorant about many things, which is a fragile mental and emotional condition.

Mike

Trump is a good showman. It’s partially why I upgraded him from Trum and added his p back in.

You asked about my squealing tire friend —

Actually, although she is indeed very emotional and intense, she has a very stable life: long-term marriage, children and grandchildren she loves and gets along with and who seem to reciprocate. Good sense of humor, really a very pleasant person all around, at least in my experience. She does fly off the handle quite easily around politics, though.

And strangely enough, to my intense surprise, this morning I got a message of apology from her (that’s something like a month after the fact). I absolutely did not expect that at all. What seems to have sparked it was that some fact I had stated about the Floyd case, which she had accused me of lying about, was substantiated by something she read recently in the NY Times, of all places!

Re: “One of the biggest questions I’ve had during this bizarre campaign is why, of all people, the Democrats anointed Biden as their candidate.”

Add to ‘I am Sparticus’ explanation om’s comment @ 3:53.

I suspect that lineup of corrupt snakes may have been the other deciding factor.