“He pretended to be blind to what you were saying…”

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Mike,

I hope your yoga is going well. I’ve been spending most of my time in Mexico the past couple of years, doing a lot of yoga at a good studio. I want to say that I admire you for talking to that social justice guy on your podcast. I don’t think I could have handled it. He wasn’t as smarmy as the guy who walked out on the podcast a few years ago when you brought up the gun violence stats, but he was in that direction as he pretended to be blind to what you were saying. You mentioned that people bring up important topics these days, and then you can’t have a conversation about it if it offends someone. I agree, but I notice that the objections to seriously addressing certain topics almost always seem to come from 1 side of the aisle. That might be the biggest objection to this guy’s point of view. He sees all the good from big government, ignoring the huge bomb that’s been built by the fed and the govt by manipulating markets. That kind of Pollyanna attitude is going to end up in greater misery than if he/we look at things in a sober manner. For the moment he’s smug and happy that he’s “right.” Too bad the government has mortgaged the future of the US, and possibly the whole world, in order to fund keeping the stock market up for the past 14.5 years. And avoiding offending anyone. In the meantime, let’s not let the smartest kids into Harvard, because they haven’t been oppressed enough.

Thanks!

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