He wouldn't be the first, but I know he can carry on an intelligent conversation. I've asked some rules questions that he's helped explain.
We just live in a nasty/divided country - designed by the two party system and supported by media (Whether for agenda or because blatant conflict sells). Its the rabbit hole everything ultimately goes down during the times we're living.
Jam, I'm impressed that you remember me being for trying to normalize relations with Cuba from back in the Obama years. Tell me why that's bad? Hell, we did after actual shooting wars with Germany, Japan, 1/2 of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. Remember what I said then? That I'd rather see American tourists with greenback dollars go into a country to effect foreign policy, than Americans dressed in green fatigues with M-16s who are going to die and kill there.
As an independent, I get to chose from the entire menu, not just order from Column A or B. And that was one of the few things I agreed with during the Obama administration, and it is one of the even fewer thing's I agree with so far in the Biden administration. Or we can allow China complete, unfettered access to the country and have their influence and military hardware sitting 90 miles away.