Some hope: my neighbor is a long time conservative

[Arrgh]

8. Similar discussion with a stranger

in the waiting room at the hand surgeon. Guy about my age (70-ish) with a UA hat and sweater, we had small talk about the space race and how we made it to the moon first because we had better Germans. Conversation veered to the polls which I said I thought were cooked and I thought it wasn't that close. He asked who I thought would win, and I said "Harris." He said "I hope so."

I wasn't expecting this but I wasn't all that surprised, he seemed pretty reasonable. He is a lifelong Republican from Alabama, I'm a lifelong Democrat from South Carolina, and we agreed that the orange one is a menace and his followers were a cult. This is in Upstate SC, a good number of stealth Democrats around but the lady that sat down in the middle of our conversation barely concealed her disgust. About that time I got called in for my post-op appointment and we parted amicably.

There may be some hope for this country yet if people like this guy will step up.