John Doyle

Maybe or maybe not.

They get annoyed with this too, because I'm sure you've had this experience where you can tell them something to the effect of,

hey, I can actually guess your opinion about like literally any topic.

And they're like, no, you can't.

And then you actually can because you understand from where it is all being derived.

And they are annoyed by this because they fancy themselves as very individualist types, very educated, well-read.

This is, of course, not the case.

But I find that the issue of the Second Amendment, for example, they may even concede like, okay, this isn't as scary as I thought.

But these are people who, if presented with facts about who is actually committing gun violence, who is actually perpetrating very recent mass shootings,

they would either reject them outright, question the source, which is to say, I need to give myself permission to not believe you, or most commonly they'll say, well, I just need to do more research, which again says, I don't believe you.

This is simply a fault of me not having prepared to explain why I am so correct.

But quite often they just want to exit the conversation and they'll go still vote Democrat, which even if they're Democrat voters who maybe are more moderates on the second amendment,

two-party system.

I mean, everything else that's evil and wrong about the world, they're more or less aligning themselves with, if not for this one issue that we've reached common ground on.

And then too, it's like, if you're going to tell me that what the Democrat national platform is, not even the crazy radicals from the 60s, like current policy, if that is a closer approximation to how you want the world to look like, then common sense, like, hey, maybe we should have a border and not just like, I don't know, have American soldiers die for feminism in Pakistan.

Like those kinds, I just, I don't know if

On my deathbed, I will not spend more time wishing I had spoken to the retarded.

And so I understand that it is our job, to a certain extent, to reach people, but... I might actually, on my deathbed, I might wish I had spent more time speaking to, like, literally retarded people.

Frankly, like Shane Gillis says, they're much more pleasant to speak to.

Literally retarded people.