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?
It doesn't help me to know this since I'm obsessed with politics, and media bias, etc., but the truth is very, very few people are interested in politics.
Often someone will toss off a comment that makes you think they are willing to discuss a subject, but usually that comment was as far as they want to go.
I quit having an interest in sports shortly after I quit playing them, yet sports probably has the widest interest level of any activity in America.
If I am bored by sports, it shouldn't surprise me that people are bored by the minutia of everyday politics.
Practice being a conversationalist, it will be easier to get women.
Since my bosses are Deaniac-grade moonbats, I mostly just get a sneaky rise out of confounding their lib stereotypes over what a conservative is.
Many folks would walk eight blocks out of their way just to avoid discussing politics or religion. That's fine. I hope they don't vote.
In some relationships, those things matter. In the office place, I tend to live and let live. In other circles, I wouldn't.
Ding ding ding ding ...... we have a winner!
This old truism seems to have been lost. Same goes for the dinner table. It's just bad manners.
Wow, thank you all for your responses. I guess I'm kinda lonely on the workfront. Thank you for your support. I will carry on but why should do I have to suppress what I feel? I do get my sarcastic comments in though. I call them my friends but I know as many of you do, that once you leave a job, it is not very often, that you really do stay in touch. Life goes on. I do like these women, they have been there for me in my struggle as a single parent and have some really good advice and I do think they are good women but boy, they just never want to go as deep as I do which makes me feel like I'm weird for the feelings that exist in my heart and soul. Thanks again. You Freepers are the best. Would any of you consider moving to Massachusetts? HahHah!
Liberal Friends?
Well, that explains it right there.
I do know how you feel. We get in occasional dust-ups here at my office. I am usually the one to cut it short.
Normally we start off mildly, then disagree, then move to anger. There is always a bit of sarcasm on my part.
I stop because I can see they are going to lose, and it will cause weeks of icey realtions. I just want to wound them, I don't want to kill them.
The only time I felt the total isolation that you do is after the 2004 election. They had prepared a victory party for Kerry, just the day before. I had told them a couple of days before that they were deluded, and I didn't want to be here for the funeral atmosphere once they realized the truth.
It was so hard not to gloat. I managed to keep quiet all day. They were all, literally, crying. No one spoke to me all day.
The following day they claimed that my confidence had to have come from the fact that I knew Bush would "steal another one". They weren't joking.
Ah, I was laughing so hard and even jumped up and down a few times, each and everytime I was out of earshot.
The world is good. There is no sweeter place to be, than in the belly of the liberal beast (California) when Republicans win.
I knwo the feeling. My favorite is when you talk about something substantive like the need to win the war, and they come back with the retort that such conversation is "inappropriate" and demand to discuss last night's episode of Survivor. What the hell is "appropriate"?
If you are asking I'd say "don't discuss politics at the office". Especially since they have signaled they don't want to. If you persist you are opening your form, and maybe yourself, to a lawsuit.
Invite them out for a drink ... then discuss on your own time in your own arena.
I am a woman. They are my work friends. Not as deep as real "outside of work" friends or family but a whold bunch of them are liberals too!
I have an old friend who I went to High School with in Mass who is definitely in the Michael Moore/MoveOn.org-wing of the Democratic Party and works in Hollywood.
We used to talk.
I have repeatedly tried to initiate conversations.
He has literally not talked to me since the election of 2000.
I know. But what is a girl to do living in Massachusetts. Recently divorced and taking care of a young 7 year-old son. Believe me, I'd like nothing more than to move to Texas where my Liberal brother just moved to because of better income and an incredible mansion. Pray and thing of me. Thanks so much!
Trust me; it's safer this way.
I sure wouldn't.
Read the Liberal Lexicon copy it and leave it laying around at the office you want to make your liberal friends talk politics this will do it !
It's a very lonesome feeling, I sympathize.
Being a single parent you probably don't have time to find a like-minded conservative group --- church maybe? Or a political group? That would mean going out in the evening, though.
Hang in there, there are many of us in the same situation.
"There has to more to life than talking about curtains and paint doesn't there?"
Not at work...leave volatile subjects alone...
Wow, same here. My best friend really doesn't see me much. She invited me to her son's recent college graduation but I know I just cannot discuss politics. How sad it has become.
But looking at it from a managers point of view those subjects can be very harmful to the group.
A while ago I had to have a quiet word with one of my employees who was loudly denouncing the war in Iraq. She was doing it in full earshot of no less then three other employees who have children in Iraq and two others who are veterans themselves.
I basically told her to shut up if she planed to continue to work with them. She shut up and things smoothed over but not one of those employees will go out of their way to make her job easier. They do what is required and no more.
And her poor judgment in running her mouth and causing that rift insures that she will never get any job that requires leadership.
There is only one thing worse than a Liberal Democrat who won't talk politics ... and that is a Liberal Democrat who will!
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