For the first time in a while our conversation did not obsess over politics and elections. We talked about heat lamps, haircuts, medical updates, and the weather – as a very loud wind storm was whipping around many of our NYC windows and threats of tornados in Brooklyn popped up on some of our phones. We talked about Thanksgiving and how to handle it with COVID and the recommended limits on gatherings, about televisions shows, about diners and about living as an avatar online in endeavors like Second Life. We talked a bit about corrupt judges, the upcoming Georgia runoffs and the Million MAGA March, which attracted maybe one hundred thousand or so and broke out in violence. One theme that did emerge, and caused a tad bit of contention, was how we Democrats (as most of us are) really need to try to understand why people, so many people, voted for Trump. We all agreed that the divisiveness in our country now is not something to be proud of or to promulgate. The question of how to understand each other, of how to reconcile with each other, of how to move forward and strengthen our country, was of course posed, but not answered.
November 15, Sunday Catch-Up
