Thank you for the compliments, I’m glad the part about quantity vs. quality came through. I’m sure there’s some more tightening up that can be done to that part of the story, but it’s getting better.
I am finding, especially during the political season, that many are looking for me to reinforce one partisan slant or another. For all the obvious reasons, I cannot do that or go there, no matter what my views happen to be. Luckily, I am actually quite agnostic on the partisan front fully believing that good people and right actions can be found anywhere and everywhere along the two dimensional political axis (as can the exact opposites) which makes my job a lot easier. Since I don’t really care about partisanship, I can readily avoid such conversations by steering into actions and responses. That’s how you find out how much someone actually knows and how deep their awareness extends.
I’ll say it again, there’s a freight train coming and we are, for the most part, still partying on the tracks, music blaring, eye’s glazed over, with too few designated watchers in our midst keeping an eye out for danger. But the tide has turned. I can feel it.