"I have no illusions about being able to change someone's mind on the internet"

You actually have changed my mind on certain things. Your ability to remain
dispassionate about topics that both the right and the left run hot on is important.

I do not let anybody make my opinion for me, but I do appreciate reading your thoughts
on all of what I honestly consider looney-tunes arguments that posters on my ignore list make.
Hopefully those posters are reading and considering what you write. I feel the same about
the arguments that you raise that I don't like. It is important that even though I despise Trump, I need to hear rational opinions on why his supporters might actually support him, as incredulous as it may seem to me. I do not care to read any of the absolute proven-it's-BS arguments that
his supporters throw out there, do not think it's healthy mentally to read that crap over and over and over again, for me anyways.