Since much of the public's political dial seems pegged at 11, my perspective as a single-issue (opposition to the legality of abortion) voter is regularly being challenged. For the most part, I don't talk with others about it at all, because the conversations are largely unhelpful to any party, and if we're going to add something to one another's
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No doubt my active disinterest in broad political discussion (outside of grounded relationships, which provide more context and are far more meaningful to me) keeps me a bit less personally exposed to that critique, which is fine with me since I don't think it's an especially constructive one. But it still occurs with a frequency that exceeds isolated incident.
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Circles of intimacy are more important to me the older I get-maybe that's the pearls before swine thing? It seems unenlightened to say that, but there's still God-given wisdom and truth to be engaged there somehow, even if it might go against my sensibilities.
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Heck, there might even be call for an unconditional, immediate withdrawal from the front, and we could deal with the consequences afterward, once we've stopped the killing. Such proposals seem popular in other circumstances…
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