Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
My cousin from Fridley is smart: National Merit Scholar, scholarship to St. Thomas, worked for the State Department abroad, taught college in Madison, lives near Baltimore \u2013 a very smart and thoroughly educated woman.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s shocked and appalled at gun violence. Something Must Be Done!\u00a0 But not if it would offend anyone. Can\u2019t focus our efforts on the 13% of the population who commit 50% of the murders, that\u2019d be racissss.\u00a0 Besides, who says so, the KKK?\u00a0 No, the FBI.\u00a0 It\u2019s not hate speech, it\u2019s the truth but she no longer recognizes it because she\u2019s embraced so many lies from The Left, the truth sounds ridiculous to her.<\/p>\n
I wish there were a way to have a reasonable discussion but when the first words out of her mouth are \u201cassault rifle,\u201d I know it\u2019s hopeless \u2013<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Converting someone from the Madison\/Macalester\/Berkeley version of America’s left is not much unlike deprogramming a cult member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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