Circumstances make the idea of moving feel a bit foolish, but things are quickly getting to the point where it doesn’t matter; mental health should have no price tag.

The other factor is my general contrarian nature; why should I leave? I’m not the one that sucks. AKA, I’m a stubborn ass.

I can’t wait to never hear from this frigid, anti-Christian Nazi ever again.

I live in a place that could pass for MAGA Mecca and am literally surrounded on all fronts pretty much anywhere I go. It is extremely isolating. Thankfully my parents are sane; still Christian, but at least they look on with a similar confused horror - though they still “like a lot of what he’s doing, just not how he’s doing it.”

“Moskowitz added, ‘We talk about bringing the temperature down, this is one way to do that.’”

This is what frustrates me the most, because all this does is further embolden the right and add fuel to the fire, IMO. Then again, blowing it off will do the same thing. Such is the consequence of tolerating intolerance and entertaining the illogical.