Posted on 11/24/2004 2:42:43 PM PST by mlmr
Why the signs then?
It's about time that we lost our illusions concerning the mindset of the Left. This last election cycle did much to allow us to see the mask of faux 'civility' slip in order to reveal the face of hate and evil. That's what these people are all about. These people may wear the faces of friends, relatives and acquaintences, but they are monsters, one and all. And the world that they, in their heart of hearts, wish to create is more monstrous still. The history of the last century makes my case.
God help the rest of us if they ever gain the upper hand, especially in the fashion in which they've dreamed. What will follow will make the last days of the old Weimar Republic look like a Girl Scout picnic.
This has been a wearing time for everybody, what with the brouhaha over the election (I'm telling you, I'm an optimist, and it got to me even.)
Throw yourself into your work, your church, your hobbies and activities. Learn a new skill. Being busy doing something you enjoy is the best cure for grief, even though it's tough to get started it's worth it.
The bonus is, doing something you enjoy you'll make new friends among the folks working alongside you. I've made some very good friends in dog training, which I took up fairly late in life after I bought my first dog at age 48.
Sounds like a bunch of psychotics.
Actually, in my opinion, it is the entire class of professional politicians who have caused this sorry state of affairs. They actually do very little and rely on the Courts to make serious legal cultural alterations. John Kerry is the perfect example of what politicians actually do, which is very little.
It began decades ago, and it was accelerating up until the 1994 elections. The trend has been stalled for a bit, and hopefully it can be reversed. Sensible Federal Judicial appointees could make the difference.
President Bush has a golden opportunity to make a difference in this destructive trend, and I hope that he is up to the task.
Jimmy Carter drove me from the left to voting for Reagan. I have never voted for a democrat since.
I have one sister and one brother who are die hard democrats. Brother is a union guy and the sister is hung up on abortion. The other two sisters voted for W, even though they had been democrats. Clinton soured them on the Rat party.
We had a birthday party for my granddaughter last weekend. I was pleased to see that NO ONE mentioned politics or any tangential subject.
This gives me hope for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. I can be gracious because we are the winners. In 2000, it was very testy; no one mentioned anything about the recount, but no one talked very much.
If anyone brings the election up, it will be my sister, who is very competitive and likes to have the last word. I will be gracious and not comment.
My brother's daughter is moving to Houston to finish school and get married. I am cheered by the fact that every time my brother flies into Houston, he will be landing at BUSH INTERNATIONAL. Ha!
I have told my Wife that I refuse to argue and/or debate politics with her parents. Even though they're flaming leftists and try to goat me into it, I won't bite: "I don't want the conversation to end with them calling me, "Hitler" or, "Nazi," like others who decide to take me on usually end up doing."
All other lefties, open season.
My high school has a web site in which the "host" is a
big fat Micheal Moore fan/Bush hater and will only
accept posts that are liberal and Kerry loving...I
already got thrown off of it twice...but I enjoyed
every minute of it....He couldn't debate and accept
the fact that he was another soreloser...alot of
information I got from Free Republic and it killed
him....life goes on!!!
Sounds like you've been growing apart for years. Apparently you didn't have enough in common to balance out the differences. From your description, you lost her many years ago, it just finally became obvious and final. It also sounds like you were the tolerant one, and you didn't lose much.
Sorry for your loss, several years ago I experienced several – less intense, and less immediate – similar experiences. It was not a strong break; more of a drifting apart, it was still painful. These were fairly close friends, and we did not have overtly political arguments, but as I became more conservative, and we did not, we drifted apart – or, more accurately, they drifted away.
Back in the early 1960's I had a neighbor who was a reporter for the local (big city) liberal newspaper. We played bridge weekly and I continually discussed politics with him. Several years later he moved to the now-deceased conservative newspaper and was to the right of me.
We lost touch over the intervening years but I now see him writing Letters to the Editor to the liberal rag and it seems that he has reverted.
I need to get back in touch and retrieve him.
I know, and I agree.
It'll take generations to undo what They have done.
Isn't that an almost-direct quote from the Clinton WH?
I don't know how old you are, but many of us approach certain ages by limiting who we associate with.
At age 50 I began the process of eliminating the idiots, whining losers, time wasters and liberals from my life, (often all 4 undesireable traits came from the same individual!).
By the age of 60, I had fined tuned the skills to avoid new friendships and even encounters with these losers in life. Then, a near death experience followed by the birth of my first grandchild made me even more skilled at weeding out the losers in life, who wasted my time and sometimes tried to insult me while pretending to be friends.
Now at the age of 66, those skills are well tuned and my esp skills at identifying losers before I waste time with them have improved. Whining losers are needed nor wanted in my life.
Trolls on Free Republic and whining losers are not welcome in my life. Eliminating them is like not allowing the MSM into your life. You have nothing to lose and sanity/happiness to gain.
I parted company with some individuals I had known for years during the Clinton Regime.
No harsh words were exchanged. I just had no desire to be around them any longer.
I have no friends that are socialists.
I have no desire to talk to a liberal.
They believe their way, I believe my way.
They feel their way, I feel my way.
"They are Baby Boomers who were cared for all their lives by well-meaning but misguided WWII generation parents and parents-in-laws. Coming of age in the 1960s, they never really "got it", and after all these years they still refuse--willingly, I believe and am sad to say--to vote the way they know they should."
My wife and our good friends came of age in the 1960's and never followed the lunatic lib Baby Boomer trail of whining losers. The whining losers we have weeded out of our lives got on that Baby Boomer Trail of Whining Losers and have never left it.
The Bible speaks of people possessed by demons. Even in this modern day; the evidence is all around us.
Yeahbut, did you show up with weaponry strapped on? That alone ought to ease the tension a bit.
Me? Concealed-carry only when around family; don't want to rile anybody up.
We had a couple that supported Kerry and their daughter took riding lessons from my wife and they kept her pony here. A week after the election they advised us that they were moving the pony and their daughter would not be taking lessons with my wife any longer, after over 3 years of 2-3 times a week. Her dad used to email mail once a week, haven't heard from him since.
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