By Lynne Cory

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What if he is of one political party and reads the newspapers and watches TV and gets all riled up and red-faced and curses at the members of the opposing party and calls them crooks and liars and scoundrels?

What if she is of the other political party and screams back that his people are losers and morons and idiots and can’t he see that they will ruin the world?

What if these two nice people cannot even enjoy a meal together because of someone they have never met nor will ever meet – isn’t that absurd?