Question for white male Dems

[Whiskeytide]

60. A lot of life experiences. But two things stand out to me. One ...

… was a girl in college. Beautiful, smart, funny and thoughtful. First person I ever met where I immediately realized she was a much better person than I was. She was confidently liberal, and I was smitten. Before meeting her, I was pretty much a southern redneck asshole, and would probably have supported Тяцмp.

The second thing, also in college, was working with a gay man for about a year. Cool guy. We had opportunities to talk all day every day. I asked a lot of stupid questions, but learned a lot, and came to understand that we could be that different and yet still be friends. Opened my mind quite a bit.

After those experiences, the right’s subjugation of women and hatred of the LGBTQ community became more and more repulsive, and I turned left. I’ve been a blue dot in red Alabama ever since.