What Political Forums do you belong to and recommend? -Slide Rule

[Slide Rule]

I figure you've probably figured all this  out, but...
Keep the door open. Avoid what arguments you can (an amazing percentage), but note, if you must that "well, let's just agree to disagree about that." and take it no further.
Let her question her own beliefs, and come around in her own time.
That way she'll know why she believes what she believes, and may change her own mind when she sees holes in it, rather than be defensive and not see at all. 
I have been in a similar spot and know the pain of waiting as well.
But I have also placed her in the Hands of Almighty God, and he's done pretty well.

Thanks for the advice and I do a number of things you mention.

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I've read most of the "classic" "sci-fi/fantasy" authors works.

 J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, etc.

Some of the older works of classical literature.

Then Ludlum and Grisham.

Then Anne McCaffery types.

Philip K. Dick
Larry Niven
Likes to Orson Scott Card, Clifford D. Simak, and  Alan Dean Foster (Alien). I like his writing style. But that is me.

I have been reading more "fluff" sci-fi these last couple of years. Not to learn anything. Just for entertainment.

I stay away from King and Koontz.

I got Kindle Unlimited and an 8" Amazon Fire tablet. I don't watch "TV". I watch Youtube.

I am reading my 43rd book this year. Half-assed, I mean half-fast speed reading.

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[Slide Rule]

I am more into non fiction, though I do on occasion read a novel. Franz Kafka was my last.
My reading is mostly about history, politics, technology, mathematics, and science. There
are some good recommendations in my sig line.

A few years ago I read a fascinating book on Huey Long. It was a fawning account, but it
is easy to note Longs lack of moral principle. He did campaign much like Trump. He was a
force and held the balance for FDR at the convention. Then FDR tossed him aside for his
trouble. Crooks are interesting reading. Read about 20 books on FDR.  FDR and the Bonus
Marchers, 1933,35 by Gary Dean Best is outstanding but very hard to find. Best wrote a
number of books on FDR. Best was not a fan.

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   Being from Louisiana originally, I have read extensively on Huey P. Long.  The similarities with the Trump Campaign are astounding to me, also @Slide Rule 
   William Jennings Bryan was also quite the character and worth study as a student of History.

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   Being from Louisiana originally, I have read extensively on Huey P. Long.  The similarities with the Trump Campaign are astounding to me, also @Slide Rule 
   William Jennings Bryan was also quite the character and worth study as a student of History.

Huey was lining up votes for FDR at the convention. He met resistance from nearby states. He told them if they did not
fall in for FDR, he would come to their state and campaine for their opponents. They folded and in the end FDR double
crossed Huey. It was the normal FDR response.

Huey finally built a home as his wife suggested. It was a beautiful spanish style. He slept in if before it was complete. On the
door there was a iron sculpture of three initials. Beautiful work, but they were not Huey's initials. No. They were the initials
of a Bank that Huey had defeated in court. The bank that paid for Huey's home. It made for a conversation starter. He knew how to rub it in.

Huey Long, by T Harry Williams.  Yep, Williams loved everything about Huey thus the fawning account.

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This one. I don't recommend any others. Arguing about politics is unhealthy.

[Slide Rule]

This one. I don't recommend any others. Arguing about politics is unhealthy.

This is an excellent forum. I do like conflict, especially when it is about politics. In any event vote.

Al

[roamer_1]

This is an excellent forum. I do like conflict, especially when it is about politics. In any event vote.

Al

I guess I do not like conflict... Not in terms of people shouting others down... not in terms of nazis on either side MAKING people go their way... I like the debate. especially on deep things. the actual principles of things. Which politics seldom has. But statesmanship does, and every now and then, something grand comes up.

And I have several political forum affiliations, I only use the one.

[Slide Rule]

I guess I do not like conflict... Not in terms of people shouting others down... not in terms of nazis on either side MAKING people go their way... I like the debate. especially on deep things. the actual principles of things. Which politics seldom has. But statesmanship does, and every now and then, something grand comes up.

And I have several political forum affiliations, I only use the one.

I have a backup plan for the shouters, nazis, and in your face sorts.

My father taught me to fight. I have had hundreds of fights. Last loss was in the 3rd grade. Dad had his last fight
when he was 85 with a 35 year old punk. I told dad, he should cut back some. Dad raised an animal, even my wrestling
coach called me animal. I don't advise this unless the neighborhood is as bad as ours was. He did not train my three
younger brothers.

I like a close in situation. I also wrestled in HS. Balance and speed are killers.

All of this winning slowed down mental development. I took that up in the 8th grade.

We all have flaws, this is one of mine.

[roamer_1]

I have a backup plan for the shouters, nazis, and in your face sorts.

My father taught me to fight. I have had hundreds of fights. Last loss was in the 3rd grade. Dad had his last fight
when he was 85 with a 35 year old punk. I told dad, he should cut back some. Dad raised an animal, even my wrestling
coach called me animal. I don't advise this unless the neighborhood is as bad as ours was. He did not train my three
younger brothers.

I like a close in situation. I also wrestled in HS. Balance and speed are killers.

All of this winning slowed down mental development. I took that up in the 8th grade.

We all have flaws, this is one of mine.

Yeah. I came up knockin heads too - But that is something different. something visceral in me that is different than intellect. THIS is an intellectual pursuit, which is a lot of why I find Tump and Tumpism an offense normally. 'Wrestling with pigs' and all that, as it were.