Disclaimer: I live in Houston, TX. I have voted for Harris already.
I have been listening the Ira and This American Life for 10 + years. I consider Ira part of my life. Brian Reed who produced this show is a big shot. I first started paying attention to him at S-town Podcast, which was an amazing show. I have listened to the same show, you mentioned. I was wondering...
I am 48. My wife is 50. We are college class mates. Thank heavens we met early on in life, much before politics became this toxic. I am thankful we have the same political view, because if we didn't, and knowing how militant she is (god bless her!, I don't believe in god); I don't think we had any chance of being together. We dodged a bullet. Our two daughters dodged a bullet.
On the same note I am going to reach out to J D Vance (yes, him!), he recently said:
“If you’re discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody votes for the other team, then you’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake and you should do something different,”
Kudos to JD for this! I have hope in humanity.
Also if you read his book he said a lot of the things regardning why we are here:
“What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”
from...J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis