That was all too early for me to be following any political news.

In a way (just this one way) I’m glad he didn’t.

At the time I was so in brainwashed conservative land. If I saw Bush get in trouble I would have stood by him simply because “Republicans good, Democrats bad”. And it might have affected my waking up to the actuality, and maybe slowed it down to the point where I’d be defending Trump now. If the last guy got in trouble but was Republican and therefore innocent, it’s just happening again, gosh dang those lefties.

That’s literally the depth of thought in that camp. I’ve been there and seen it. They don’t have any higher functioning logic to speak of.

Has to scrape myself out of that thinking. Took me forever. Turns out deprogramming yourself against the thinking taught you you by everyone you’ve ever known and with only tangential knowledge of others you know doing it is difficult.

I didn’t really have any exposure to anything outside that world until I was 25 or so. I still find pieces of that thinking and influence in me all the time.

Thanks for coming to my accidental TED talk. Got a ramble going there.