I had a moment at school today. I was sitting down with some classmates today and one of them noticed my desktop background. It happens to be the "Democrat Donkey". I love the little fucker. Anyway, this girl sees it and proclaims proudly, "I am a Republican."
Erk.
Having no ability to shut my mouth, be it on the internet or in real life, I said, "Goodness, I'm sorry. We can get you help for that, but first you'll have to admit that you have a problem." Wrong move. The girl sitting next to her says something along the lines of, "Oh G-d, I bet you complain about Bush all the time. It's so disrespectful to do that." This threw me for a loop, since there were actually two Republicans in Madison, WI! Alright, so I continued by telling them that yes, I write for the school newspaper and I am, in fact, the chief of bashing Bush in the Opinion section. That factoid killed them: "That's so stupid. You don't even understand how hard his job is. Yeah, he's made some mistakes, but you couldn't do his job."
I stopped and thought about that for a second. They were right, I couldn't perform his job. I could not possibly knowingly send thousands of American citizens to their death for absolutely no reason. Oh wait, we have to stabilize the region. Right right. I could also not orchestrate the attempted dismantling of the American Constitution at every possible moment. Not just the American Constitution, but worldwide concepts, such as habeus corpus and the freedom to practice a religion that doesn't coincide with brainwashing children into believing that they're soldiers of Jesus.
Snark.
The conversation with those two girls was going to go nowhere. I asked them what they knew about politics. Predictably, they knew less than nothing. I tried informing them about some of the more grandiose atrocities of the Bush regime, but they were having none of it. Fuck, I tried though.
I realized something today (yesterday). The Democratic party is filled with mostly intelligent people. I say mostly, because for one, I am a member of it and two, because hyperbolic generalizations never work in real life, but the fact of the matter is that the Democratic party is, pound for pound, more tuned in than the Republican party. Unfortunately, when trying to shed the light on the uninformed, I am usually met with resistance. So what do I do? I recede to my comfort zone and blather about how evil the Bush administration is with my fellow liberal cronies. That's counterproductive. We accomplish nothing other than improving our own sense of self worth. I don't know what to do anymore, but I do know this: I'm young, I'm opinionated, I have a big fucking mouth, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let those wonderful traits fall to the wayside.
Sigh.
Erk.
Having no ability to shut my mouth, be it on the internet or in real life, I said, "Goodness, I'm sorry. We can get you help for that, but first you'll have to admit that you have a problem." Wrong move. The girl sitting next to her says something along the lines of, "Oh G-d, I bet you complain about Bush all the time. It's so disrespectful to do that." This threw me for a loop, since there were actually two Republicans in Madison, WI! Alright, so I continued by telling them that yes, I write for the school newspaper and I am, in fact, the chief of bashing Bush in the Opinion section. That factoid killed them: "That's so stupid. You don't even understand how hard his job is. Yeah, he's made some mistakes, but you couldn't do his job."
I stopped and thought about that for a second. They were right, I couldn't perform his job. I could not possibly knowingly send thousands of American citizens to their death for absolutely no reason. Oh wait, we have to stabilize the region. Right right. I could also not orchestrate the attempted dismantling of the American Constitution at every possible moment. Not just the American Constitution, but worldwide concepts, such as habeus corpus and the freedom to practice a religion that doesn't coincide with brainwashing children into believing that they're soldiers of Jesus.
Snark.
The conversation with those two girls was going to go nowhere. I asked them what they knew about politics. Predictably, they knew less than nothing. I tried informing them about some of the more grandiose atrocities of the Bush regime, but they were having none of it. Fuck, I tried though.
I realized something today (yesterday). The Democratic party is filled with mostly intelligent people. I say mostly, because for one, I am a member of it and two, because hyperbolic generalizations never work in real life, but the fact of the matter is that the Democratic party is, pound for pound, more tuned in than the Republican party. Unfortunately, when trying to shed the light on the uninformed, I am usually met with resistance. So what do I do? I recede to my comfort zone and blather about how evil the Bush administration is with my fellow liberal cronies. That's counterproductive. We accomplish nothing other than improving our own sense of self worth. I don't know what to do anymore, but I do know this: I'm young, I'm opinionated, I have a big fucking mouth, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let those wonderful traits fall to the wayside.
Sigh.
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"Goodness, I'm sorry. We can get you help for that, but first you'll have to admit that you have a problem."
*Applause*
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