@3967703f 
I'm trying to be civil. I'm old & been around this crap, in one form or another, for a long damn time. Plus, my family came here fleeing the Nazis, & my grandparents always told us "never say it can't happen here, bc it can & will". I watched the House UnAmerican Cmte ruin the lives of relatives & friends, & white nationalists intimidate & murder POC. I'm not as forgiving as I try to pretend to be. (✊🏼☮️) 

 @3967703f 
Well then, we'll need to have the documentation to call them out on it. Let them apologize for all the harm they did in their "former lives", show us how they've reformed, and maybe we'll let them sit at the table. 

 @3967703f 
On the one hand, I'm both surprised & charmed that you were such an idealist (by which point I was already 53 & jaded). On the other hand, I'm wondering what wonderland you were living in, to have been seeing things through such rose-colored glasses. 20 years ago, we were still in San Diego, & the right-wing stupids were rabidly fighting the elegant wind turbine 'farms', claiming they caused cancer & killed birds. (They didn't care about birds one iota.) 

 @3967703f 
And if you get to that place and the answer is no... what can you do about it? 🙁