Not long ago, I ran into a long-lost acquaintance who always assumed — always incorrectly — that I was simpatico with her leftist leanings.  Maybe it was my long hair or dangling earrings or that I liked to listen to Joe Cocker.

I remembered that she always appeared distressed — not because of a cancer diagnosis or trouble with her two children or a problem in her marriage or with her job as private secretary to a malpractice lawyer, but because of one or another of the endless planet-killing problems that occupy the daily bad thoughts and the nightmares of liberals.

Her list was long, and always growing — saving the whales, redistributing income, ending poverty, air pollution, land pollution, the colossal hoax of climate change (as explained by the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman), human rights, animal rights, women’s rights, gun control, world hunger, universal (free) health care, big business, and of course capitalism!  Oh, did I omit the U.S. Constitution?!

So when we ran into each other, I wasn’t surprised that this woman — who probably should have been on antidepressants or anti-anxiety meds for decades — looked her ole glum self.

“How are you?” I asked.  “Your kids, your husband, your job, your life?”

“No problems in those departments,” she said.  “But look at the world!  The news!”

Didn’t Take Her Long...

“What are you referring to?” I asked her.

“Oh, the news,” she opined, “I think Netanyahu has ruined Israel!”

“Well, a lot of people don’t like it when Jews fight back.”

“But it’s so disproportionate!”

It’s not often that you have a ready answer for people with whom you disagree.  Usually, you think of the perfect comeback when you wake up at two........

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