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Quite a few recently. I have been buying items from craigslist for our recently acquired property in the mountains to set up a family campground. I can't afford new things, so it's a craigslist quest for bargains.

Just yesterday I got a gas grill from a 5th grade teacher who is married to the state's public works director. I told her in a non-confrontational way that her profession needs a complete overhaul, and that history and civics need to be brought back and not taught as Communism 101, mentioning that that's about all colleges and universities are teaching. This was after small talk about the craziness in the country came up. It gave me an opening. She was floored that anyone would think that teachers weren't some kind of enlightened class.

I asked her what other kinds of jobs she had held, and she said she had had none but teaching. I joked that it sounds like most teachers, and they remind me of Catholic priests giving advice on marital sexual relations. There's little or no real world experience. She didn't like it, and her husband, a transplant from Portland looked aghast. I was always polite and further explained my statements with rational arguments and examples, never being confrontational. We left friends, but not until I asked them how will they like Biden as President, then promptly replaced by a woman of color who was picked ONLY for that reason. I asked if that made sense??? They looked at each other like a refrigerator had fallen on them.

They'll probably vote Bolshevik, but they seemed surprised that I made sense and they were opened to a different political philosophy. They are both intelligent, so maybe something clicked.