Juan George

Bill Maher's ending monologue of his season finale was dedicated to both sides coming together for Christmas: Bill Maher: "Your job is to help people, all people, not just the ones you agree with. And I would say the same to the FEMA supervisor in Florida who told the rank and file relief workers after Hurricane Milton to avoid helping homes with Trump signs on their lawns. This shit has got to stop on both sides. This is America. I want to be judged by the content of my character, not what's on my lawn. There's a great article that came out in the Free Press this year by someone who learned this firsthand. It's called whatever Happens Love Thy Neighbor. And it tells of how a married couple who are exactly be portrait of a liberal white couple living in Park Slope, Brooklyn. That you would expect wind up moving upstate and then are surrounded by Trumpers and they're petrified. But then when they get stuck in the snow, the Trump guy down the street doesn't hesitate to help dig the liberals out. The author, Larissa Phillips, says she slowly came to reject the political prejudice so common among my tribe and that it's hard to care where someone stands on politics when they race to your house to save a dying lamb. When their wife helped search for your runaway dogs and that she personally has been stunned by the depth of my neighbor's generosity. I get it that for the Democrats, this was a brutal loss. But the plan to deal with it has to be something better than stay in a snit and take advantage of this magical time of year to cut people off. But family isn't like gender. You can't fix it by cutting off members." Now that they're out of power, 'There are fine people on both sides.' Where was this the last 4 years?