General Discussion

given the reality in which we live. On any given day, the governor should piss off half the people and the other half the next. His job is to be the Governor for all his constituents. That means he's going to be fielding flack every day.
I think a lot of people need to think a little harder before flinging shit over his podcasts. We're all day harping past each other and mocking and belittling, bitching and bickering. And get up tomorrow and do it again. In all my trips around the Sun, we've never stopped to really listen, and NOTHING has changed (for the better). Nobody feels that they are being heard, and their concerns are not considered, nor are their feelings. And while we may assert that we don't have feelings (you know who you are, Bud), they can certainly be hurt, and you can certainly react.
I may be wrong, but I thought I was seeing a man making contact with others with seemingly disparate views to LISTEN and try to make them feel heard. In this way dialogue and negotiation might find a way to lower the heat of these exchanges, and move us closer to a way to respect one-another a little more. Does anybody think we can go on this way for much longer? We are literally surrounded by peoples who, more each day it must be said, wish us to fall. As well as hundreds of domestic terror groups, cabals and militias plotting to bring it all down from inside. Until a majority can find their Humanity we are doomed to swirl on down, and our Greatness, our Exceptionality will be just a smudge around the drain. So I applaud my Governor for reaching out. He didn't join up. He put himself on the line to listen and learn.
On another aspect, if he learned something that would help us convince three-or-four percent to swing our way, it would change a lot.
One of my mentors taught me to look at who's booing you, and consider the source of their mockery, and see them for who they are.