Not long ago, I got an email from this individual. We’ve never actually met. We’ve chatted over the years via email and instant messagings. Shared tidbits here and there, but really don’t know a whole lot about each other aside from the fact that we share a common ground that linked us together - hodgkin’s disease/lymphoma. It’s her (adult) son who had it.

Anyway, she asked how I was and what I’ve been up to etc. In my reply, I briefly mentioned that I’m afraid of what will happen in the next 4 years. Who are we going to invade next? We’re so hated in the world as it is already. I’m just purely afraid of what the consequences we Americans will face in the world due to this admin and its actions. That was the extent of all I’ve said in that regard.

She writes back, more terse than her usual tone. There were tidbits of stuff here and there, superfacial politeness can be sensed, it was unusual. Then I realized why. At the end of the email, she signed: hername (Pro-Bush)

She decided to completely avoid an intellectual debate and just wrote “pro-bush”. She probably lables me as Unpatriotic, too.

Wow. And, double sigh.