Sorry for this, but I need to rant.

Here's some setup: My wife and I are currently living in the Seattle area and we've wanted to leave for a long time. Being surrounded by ignorant liberals that buy into everything the establishment says has been completely infuriating. Finally, we're able to pull it off and are leaving in a couple weeks to move to a much redder state. Thank God.

One of my wife's best friends for a number of years has been this gay guy she met in college. Generally speaking, he's an agreeable person. He's been really supportive of my wife in the past and I don't really give a shit about the gay thing, so I've never taken issue with him. My exposure to him has always been really limited.

Anyway, he wanted to meet up with my wife and say goodbye before we take off. My wife warns me that he's really paranoid about covid and even though he's had the vaccine, he wants to socially distance and mask up during the visit. Now, I've never talked politics with him, before, but I always assumed he was a lefty due to the whole "gay and living in the middle of Seattle" thing. The paranoia about the covid thing was a bit of a red flag to me, but whatever, the visit's only for a couple of hours, so I'll play nice.

So he comes over to visit. I'm half busy during the visit anyway getting the house ready to sell and keeping our dog from bothering them during the visit. I finally decided to hang out with them while they're chatting on the couch just so I'm not being rude and this mother fucker cannot stop making stupid fucking comments.

Every time he opens his mouth he has some dumb comment about Republicans, Trump supporters, calling anyone that doesn't mask up an asshole. Throwing out every cliched catch phrase he's been programmed to use like "follow the science". My wife, to her credit, did a good job deflecting and steering the conversation into non-political topics.

In less than 5 minutes I lost all respect for him.

I am so fucking sick to death of being surrounded by these lefty cultists that assume it's fine to casually start talking shit on people because the idea that someone could disagree with them is just alien to them. They live in such a fucking echo chamber that it never even enters into their minds that the people they know might not agree with them on these topics and that casually making really shitty statements about those people might be insulting the people they're currently talking to.

This. This is the reason we're leaving Seattle and this is the reason I'm done with the left. The people here are completely fucking toxic and I'm tired of having to make the choice to either bite my tongue or ruin the evening by not putting up with it. I want to be surrounded by normal people that either leave politics out of it because they recognize it's a contemptuous topic or are at least reasonable about the topic and don't just parrot back MSM opinions as if they are original thoughts.