She and I were both born around 1960. We met before kindergarten. She grew up with liberals, and me with conservatives. Things turned out accordingly for both of us. She is the poster child for liberalism. When I discussed the Gore-Bush election with her and told her I believed it was a sin to vote for an abortion loving candidate, she said “oh I wouldn’t have an abortion but I can’t say that others shouldn’t” and “I always vote for democrats because my dad always did.” You can’t argue with stupid. Still, it was years after that election before I’d had enough of her other antics. I was the giver and she was the taker. Hey, that’s just like a liberal,eh?
My liberal friend has really gone off the deep end and her family is falling apart because of it. She got much more liberal after her daughter went to college as an affirmative action student, being 1/4 Hispanic, and then law school.
She had never completely given up drugs from her hippy days, but after she injured her back, she started growing her own marijuana and using much more heavily. She also started supplying others, her daughter, who was in need of a kidney transplant, and her other daughter, as well as some young friends. One of those young people hit a guy on a bicycle and killed him after leaving her house and spent 3.5 years in jail because he tested positive for marijuana use.
My friend’s son, who was a great young kid, is now a heroin addict on methadone, now. They haven’t spoken in two years. He told her that his drug addiction was her fault because she never made it clear what drugs could do to a person and always made it look like fun. He told her that she was the worst mother in the world.
Her husband left her recently and told her the same thing. He said that it worse every time that he came home and that he just couldn’t take it any more. She blames everyone else and their closed mindedness. She went from being the most generous, fun person that I knew to being mean, selfish and irresponsible. I blame the drugs.