To My Sorrow, There Can Be No Common Ground With the Left

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/02/23/to-my-sorrow-there-can-be-no-common-ground-with-the-left-n1673385

It's a shame it actually has come to this, but I agree with this opinion piece to a great extent. Years ago I could speak with a democrat about the 'issues' affecting all of us, now though, you can't. What did it for me was:

The idea that blacks can't be conservative, calling them names like "Uncle Tom", etc.
Letting males compete in female sports
Encouraging children to sexually transition without their parent's consent
The focus on 'sexual identity' in schools rather than simply teaching the 3-R's
Unrelenting freaking out that took place about masking and vaccines
Refusing to define what a woman is
Defunding the police
No-bail criminal system
The outright encouragement and justification of rioting and looting
Constant barrage of negative comments against those that live in rural areas
Obvious hypocrisy from the climate change movement, private jet usage, limos, etc
The "canceling" of people simply because they have different opinions from yours

And I probably missed a few I'm sure. 

I used to say that this will all cycle itself out, I'm not so sure now, though. The Bill Mahers of the world that have the guts to bang some heads together within their own party are simply too few and far between. Hopefully I'm wrong though. 

New hobby. 

My father got one of the copper/brass fire extinguishers from the old railroad depot when it closed. Some stupid fella (me) filled it with water for some reason?  It was stored in our unheated garage so it froze and split the whole side out of it.  My dad was making us clean out the garage for a dump run, which as a teenager, pissed me off.  I threw it out, along with several rail cutoffs that could be used as anvils….man that was stupid of me.  I wish I had one of those now.  Ahh, the stupid shit teenagers do.  I still have a smaller one that is used for a doorstop.  Dad brought a couple home, a guy in the shops made them.  I’m not sure where the other/s are, I think at least one of my siblings has one?  I use this one for a doorstop, and an anvil.  Mostly for junior leatherwork and junior gun-smithing.  The paint has a few dings on it from anvil use.  I think the doorstop in my mom’s garage is a bearing from a rail car wheel.  It a steel cylinder about 3 1/2”-4” in diameter and 3”-4” tall.  I have pressed it into service as an anvil in the past as well.