Last thing I want to mention. I know you see me as a "right-wing dingbat", but I've spent my life voting for left-wing or centrist parties. I have more of a libertarian bent than I used to have, but that's just come about through life experiences, which you can't account for when you are younger. I don't see those libertarian views as fundamentally left or right. And they apply to certain issues but not others (i.e. I'm not actually a libertarian).

In recent years, however, the left has shifted in quite bizarre and extreme ways, and many people who were once somewhere in the middle or centre-left of the spectrum now find themselves somewhere they never expected to be. Now, you can be considered a conservative or even controversial for holding views that were consensus about 15 years ago. That's what I mean by "the madness of the Dems".

I know plenty of other people who feel the same way. Many of the high-profile people behind Trump are former Democrats or Democrat voters. It's pretty bizarre to be labelled "right-wing" (not that there's anything wrong with being right-wing) and "racist" by people you've never met for having discussions about this.