We are living in strange times.

[DonH]

KML, you summed that up perfectly. Women are less likely to date republicans. Very clear.

Well that’s not EXACTLY what this study showed. Funny how we think if we believe it, everyone does. The thing is, it’s not women as in all women, it’s Dem woman who are less likely - but that certainly doesn’t make it the case for ALL women - actually much more like just about half.

Does this solve the mystery of why Democratic women don’t want to date Republican men?

Again, that’s not the question I posed. It’s not a mystery and in fact I don’t believe I ever used the word mystery. What I said was I found it interesting and amazing and a few other terms but not a mystery.

What this study showed is only some people have an issue with dating those with different viewpoints (Democrats) and only some people don’t want to have friends with different views (again democrats) The study showed only 5% of republicans won’t be friends with a democrat. FIVE Percent. Why is that? While 6 times that number of democrats won’t have a republican friend. With dating, about 1/3 of republicans won’t date a democrat versus nearly 3/4 of democrats refusing to go on a date with a republican. Why such a difference? Their rationale or excuses for it is not a mystery but I do find it very interesting - that’s all - especially coming from the crowd that has preached inclusion, and tolerance and acceptance. They have preached including EVERYONE and tolerating EVERYONEs thoughts and beliefs and including EVERYONE. But according to this survey it’s not really everyone just everyone but a republican - or again about half the population. Or everyone other than about half the country Lol. Let’s accept and embrace a trans young adult but, gasp, NOT a republican. Can’t do that. As if. Or let’s embrace gay marriage (which Obama clearly ran against during the first election I might add, but we can’t have democrats dating republicans. Oh the irony. That’s my mystery - not the list of excuses used to try and justify it. And if you don’t think I could create the same type of list of excuses you did, you’re wrong. Republicans just seem to actually practice tolerance and acceptance versus putting those bumper stickers on their cars. That what this survey seems to show anyhow.

Any man who has “conservative Christian “ in their profile without mentioning their political leanings I automatically swipe left because I know exactly what that means.

And we may have finally hit on why you’ve had double digit years of dating disappointing guys. Date a balanced, grounded gentlemen who believes in god and follows the commandments? What could be worse? Are there phony religious people? Absolutely! Just like there are crazy phonies in any group. I have noted however that some of the most successful marriages are Christian based. My parents were married 62 years. Were they overtly religious? Heck no. Most people would have no idea of their religious beliefs other than by their general behavior. They never talked about their religion. But following the principles of the church helped to bring them through 62 years. And they are far from alone. I’m not at all suggesting you need to go on Christian mingle or something but to reject out of hand a Christian, sheds new light for me.

Had a very fun and busy weekend capped off with another Packer win. On Friday I saw a couple of the principle operators of the cruise I performed on the last two years pre-travel bans. They do a big variety of other things as well including a very well produced series of Christmas shows. They want me to be part of the house band for next year which is a welcome challenge and the type of thing I’ve not done since pre-Covid. I love to be challenged and get to perform with different professions. So this was nice news.

They then followed that with, they’d like to put us back in the lineup for the January 2023 cruise. Gulp. Oh no. Pretty much immediately the comments started to fly about I better start working on a date now. Pretty sure that “You might have to lower your standards got thrown out as well. Ba ha ha, funny guys. It’s not official yet but probably as good as. Guess I’ve got about 9 months again to figure it out. Just figured I’d give the veterans here fair warning that cruisegate #3 might be around the corner. Who do I want to and do I think I can spend 8 or 9 days and nights with? Perhaps one or two on the current list but I’m not even certain of that. Ugh. SMH