I know this is a weird thing to post but I think my folks are pretty emotionally intelligent and I need to thank them for that.
My dad in particular taught me how to drive and his best advice was to learn to control your emotions, and that includes for everything. Not in a “bottle everything up” way, but in a sense to be aware when you can make irrational decisions.
He may be a centrist but he made one of the most scathing critiques of the GOP I ever heard “a lot of them simply just miss being a kid and want to legislate themselves back to childhood.”
Let me guess:
: “Those evil EVIL authoritarians let me see the doctor and it was all paid for by….the T-WORD!1!1! No deductibles, no premiums! And service wasn’t deliberately sabotaged!1! The HORROR!1!1!1”