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Originally Posted by rustyp
The U.S. Presidential Election: Can Donald Trump can once again defy the polls? | Four Corners - YouTube
Segment from the 7 minute to the 14 minute mark about The Villages. I wish I could edit this to just that segment as the rest of the video is about how important it is to win Florida in the upcoming election. My purpose is not political but to point out how we - The Villagers look to the rest of the country independent of political party and relay some sadness this has personally caused me. There is a segment around the 10 minute mark that describes people having become so hostile to each other they have been ousted from social circles. This hits home for me. For years I had a golf group playing 3 times per week. Last year it got so bad as leader had to make a rule no talking politics. Didn't work. We had to abandon the group and some friendships parted ways.
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It’s sad. I grew up in a very conservative household. My mom once washed my mouth out with soap for saying the forbidden words “Shut up.” My language can be salty at times, but in the following sixty years, I never used language like that in my parents’ presence, and I never used language like that in my children’s presence. It IS possible to just not talk about politics in “mixed company” where it will offend. It takes an effort, and it may leave a hole in the conversation, but it CAN be done. However, it is so much easier when people don’t post signs on their lawns, bodies, and golf carts and don’t post offensive memes on their Facebook pages. (Offensive to some others, not to the person posting, necessarily.) Just as we are avoiding the political name calling on here, we can do it in real life. But of course here we have a Moderator. (Thank you, Moderator!) I real life, we have to be our own moderators.