I have many good friends who are liberals, one in particular who I work with, she is a jewel. She is BRILLIANT at her work, a wonderful person, and...a liberal.
I have to put up with people who want to talk politics at work. I don’t offer it as a subject unless I know the person, but if someone brings it up to me, I am not backing off.
I have to listen to them talk over the cubicles, and I have to say, sometimes I can only roll my eyes at it. “Oh Boy! John, did you see the stock market this morning? It is up 45 points! It is working, we are coming out of the recession! Yippee!” I am not kidding you. It is as if they put something in the water. And these are not stupid people, which makes it even more disturbing.
We had a test system with fake people in it. My liberal friend created a fictional person named “SARAH ALASKA” in it, just for me as a friendly nudge when we were testing. One day, this other woman who is a flaming liberal walked in (this was before the election) and said “I am sick of seeing that woman’s name in the test system! I can’t wait until this election is over and we won’t have to see her name again!”
I looked at her and said “Have you even considered that there might be some people who WANT to hear her name and see her be successful? I am one of those people!”
The look of absolute horror and confusion on her face was hilarious. And no, I am not making this up or exaggerating!
She stammered, a look of bewilderment and horror on her face: “...You...you...you’re...you’re...you’re one of THEM!”
I am not kidding. She had thought I was a nice, decent guy. That was exactly what she said! And I said “You’re damn right I am one of ‘THEM’...”
Being a conservative in this state is difficult. I have thrown away my state votes for President, Senator, Congressman, State Rep, everything, every single year. But I still go back and do it, because it is my right to do it.
I love it here. But i HATE the politics and the politicians up here.
That's what Janice Kennedy wrote about in the column I referenced in #77.
That's back when we still bought newspapers, (take that Janice!).
A 250 + word opinion piece about how horrified she was to see otherwise nice, and reasonable people put up lawn signs for the Conservatives. She would never be able to look at "them" the same way again.
My take? Good! Don't look at me Janice. I certainly won't have any need to look at you, read what you write, or care what you think.