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November. Election month. Politics. It can divide a dinner party as quickly as it can divide a nation. I enjoy intelligent discussions involving politics…sometimes. What I can’t deal with are people who get so heated that they can’t sit and calmly talk about an issue; instead they end up red-faced and yelling, making me just want to slither out the door without looking back.

What is it about politics that stirs up such emotions in people? I’ve never seen anyone talk about the weather and end up angrily storming out. (Get it? Weather? “storming”? I’m here all week.) Well, I think it’s because political issues, regardless of what they are, cut straight to the core of humanity. Every issue, whether it be affirmative action, abortion, global warming – okay, I guess there is one weather-related issue people get fired up about – regardless, all these issues affect each of us, and people love to exercise that freedom of speech. That’s fine with me, just don’t get up in my face or call me names. This has happened more than once when I’ve been engaged in political “discussions.”