Politics!

Have you ever felt that you were the only sane one in your family, or extended one?

Forwards and chain letters or mail that needs to be passed on seems to always cause emotional reactions from one of the people you might pass it on to. I have asked people not to send them to me so I wouldn't be possessed to possibly send it on and take the wrath of some individual that I thought might enjoy the read only to find out that I am a radical or crazy or whatever they might come up with!
Funny it's never them in the wrong...only you!
Innocently, you thought, maybe with not much thought, but really just a small feeling that others would enjoy or want to read what was sent to you, and never had you been so wrong!
I have been hostilely told I am an extremist in some political venue when sending on something I thought was very profound or just damn interesting, when in reality I am a registered non partisan party member, so is my husband.
Not that I am A-political , but over the years I have felt that I would vote according to the person, not the party, and in this way it has prevented us from being bombarded by thousands of calls telling us to go out and vote, and to vote for their candidate. (PS we are on the DO NOT CALL LIST). Ha that has not worked for us.
I have always voted since I was of the legal age to do so.
In fact, in college, I wrote my journalism paper on giving the right to eighteen year olds to vote way back in 1969.
Years before it was passed into legislation in 1972.Not that this matters in the bigger picture of things.

I was so upset by the reaction of one of these such returns that I blocked this person from ever writing back to me and now I do feel safer.
But they did scare me.
The attack was so vicious and so hurtful that I must admit I was shaking!

With that said I do feel better, because I did promise my husband I would not retaliate to that person. Somehow I feel slightly vindicated by being able to vent here.

Gee blogs are therapeutic!
Who would have thunk it!