This last weekend I had some experiences which might provide a window into what will happen in our upcoming Presidential Election…
I got the chance to have a long talk with a chronic fatigue syndrome patient I’ve known for a while, but we were usually in larger gatherings. “You know, Kent,” she said at one point, “I used to be a big time liberal in 2016. Both me and my husband. But now we’re both voting for Trump.”
I LOVE these types of conversations, because I’m always fascinated about what makes people change their minds. “How did that come about?” I asked.
“Well, I really respected you and Dr. Judy Mikovits. So when you and Judy said you were supporting Trump I was confused. But my father always told me that if you’re going to have a strong opinion about something, you need to research it. So I researched Trump and realized I’d been wrong about him. He’s fighting the corrupt system, and my side wasn’t.”
I thought of my own detours from orthodoxy.
When people accuse me of being set in my ways, I delight in telling them I voted TWICE for Bill Clinton because I’d become concerned about the Republican party becoming a party of the religious right. In his time, Bill Clinton was the best politician of his day, and I especially enjoyed the balancing of the budget under his administration.
I look for evidence of people changing their minds.
Despite the media talking about Republicans supporting Biden, those Republicans didn’t support Trump anyway in 2016. Maybe I live in a bubble, but it seems I only hear about former anti-Trump people turning pro-Trump. It doesn’t seem to go the other way.