Posted on 07/21/2006 5:12:21 PM PDT by jhw61
Not once since Hizbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, killed a young Israeli citizen have my liberal friends mentioned once in office conversation. Today I felt totally shut up when one of my co-workers made a comment about "my governor, Mitt Romney" and new benefit rules for MassHealth. I started to respond and was shut down by another co-worker who said O.k. let's not talk politics. I said "You democrates never want to talk politics." It's so frustrating. Day after day after I spend my evenings here on FR, my liberal co-workers talk about the next pair of curtains they are going to buy, wow, those Red Sox are so hot, etc.,...I'm surrounded by what I would say are people who really don't care about what goes on around them, unaware how what goes on in the world should affect them. My four fellow female co-workers never want to Discuss anything. Their feeling is people should be able to believe what they want, worship who they want and that's it. What is wrong with me. Why do I feel so isolated? Yes, I live in liberal Massachusetts and that should be the answer right there but I could use some encouraging comments. Thank you for considering my thread my wondersul fellow Freepers. There has to more to life than talking about curtains and paint doesn't there?
If you were a democrat would you want to talk about politics? LOL
In these times, everyone's afraid of getting into political dust-ups at the water cooler.
Do you belong to a USDA-approved ethinc minority? It's practically a crime to argue with such.
You should try working with another FReeper, especially if you get paid by the hour!
Because they know they don't have facts or reason on their side, merely leftist superstitions.........
When you know (or at least believe) the deck is stacked and the deal is not looking good for you, that tends to cut conversation short.
Egos, particularly liberal egos, are often easily bruised.
The RATs can't really tell us the truth, that they hate America, and it's America's fault for every problem in the world. They cannot afford to betray their ignorance, stupidity, and generic hatred for everything American, including Israel.
RATs are too emotionally scarred to have an intelligent conversation.
That fairy tale is: Listen to your heart, not your brain.
It is a message pushed 24/7 in our culture. When someone in a movie, TV show or interview calls someone on their lack of intelligence, the ACCUSER is the bad person in that situation, for "insulting someone's intelligence."
Yet in these situations, the heroic character--usually a feeling, "compassinoate" woman--the one the TV show, interview or whatever has invested with moral authority, the audience is to applaud when someone calls someone out for "not caring" or "thinking only of money" or "Being selfish".
Our society is being overwhelmed by people who think logic is a sham, something machines deal with, while real, true, GOOD humans are motivated entirely by....their feeeeelings.
Or maybe your friends are just stupid.
As Reagan said, to paraphrase, it isn't that Democrats are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't true.
Democrats are "intellectually challenged". They lack critical thinking skills, and knowledge of history. They take the propaganda they hear on TV and read in the newspapers as abolute fact.
Even on lunch or break diving deeply into any of those three subjects can cause ill will and division in a office team and you are a team. They are subjects that are very personal, very emotional and people do not act logically when they are arguing heatedly about them.
For political conversation I suggest you look outside of work. People who stir things up at the office tend not to be regarded well by management.
Hang in there,girl...multi-tasking is posible when it comes to politics and pop culture. Isreal needs to kick ass and so does Matt Kenseth...((;O)...
You know they did discuss politics with you, you just didn't notice it. The smartass remark about "your" governor, Mitt Romney, for example was straight out of the liberal asshat playbook. I would've told them, "You don't want to talk politics, then don't make stupid political statements like 'your governor', mmmmK?"
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