So, I’ve known my friend (I’ll call him Dave) for around 34 years. He and I are both from Ohio. Me from up north, and he from down south.
Dave is, was, and will always be a liberal democrat. He’s a jazz drummer and world-music percussionist. Practices around 8 hours a day. And he paints houses as well as oils. I’m a musician too, but not like him. Dave has basically given his life to his music and his oil painting. He has lived out of his car for stretches. Lived with me for stretches. And for the last few years, with his Mom in southern Ohio.
Dave’s Dad has passed. But when he was still with us, was a liberal too. In fact, the whole family are liberals. except Mom. She’s been a conservative all her life. Her entire family goes back a very long time, as strict conservatives. Nixon. Ford. Reagan. Bush I. Bush II, and…………………...Trump. As well as down the ballots.
And she LOVES Trump.
It hasn’t been easy for Dave, staying with his Trump-loving Mom. Perhaps some of you are in the same boat. Dave would periodically email me and say “kill me.” “my Mom won’t shut up about that asshole.”
But the last year or so, he’s been radio-silent about her. No complaints. No attempts at suicide-by-friend.
And frankly, I had forgotten all about her…………
Then, today, in an email…………...almost as an aside, Dave tells me:
My mom hates him...yay!!!
Now………..full disclosure: I’ve never met either of Dave’s parents, as they’ve always lived down near Dayton, Ohio.
But I have heard ABOUT his Mom.
And this news nearly knocked me off my chair.
I have to admit, I never had one iota of hope that she would ever see the light.
But. She has.
I don’t have the deets. I don’t know what turned her against him (take yer pick, right?)
But she’s done. DONE.
D-O-N-E
Now, does this necessarily count as a vote FOR Joe Biden? Doubtful.
Does it even mean she will leave the Presidential ballot empty? Maybe……….maybe not.
But she is now telling people in her family, openly, that she hates Trump.
I’d like to say that this is HUGE.
So I will.
It’s HUGE.