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In reply to the discussion: My wife and I have a comfotable retirement [View all]SleeplessinSoCal
(9,177 posts)... if you ask him how he is. I never argue with him about it because he wants to retire and needs to sell his business to do so. He just says he did well until 3 years ago. Then he will launch into how he hates living in CA. He puts the most negative thoughts about it in your face. Mainly that it's "unaffordable" for retirement and full of Democrats.
It's an amazing balancing act he does because he is so sweet otherwise. He's addicted to right wing news outlets. He inherited that from his dad (different dads) along with the business. Says he voted for "SHitler" because of regulations. 12 years earlier he said he voted for Bush because of late term abortion!! I asked what if his wife needed one to live and he said she might sacrifice herself, even though she was raising 3 boys. He thinks he makes me feel better about the dangers of Climate Change by telling me some made up science he read about.
Last summer I told him I see where he gets his info from reading his Facebook posts. It was the only time I felt I held up a mirror. It was a painless way of saying we get totally different info. Saturday he suddenly ragged on NBC. I didn't ask why because there is real anger there and the wedge would only deepen. I love him and wish only the best for him. But he and so many others have been dragged from facts with highly paid for "altrrnative facts".
I will miss him when he moves to Arizona to retire.