(Never heard that one before!)
Posted on 03/23/2012 7:43:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(Never heard that one before!)
Hahahaha! I guess we’ll need Lazamataz to check in!
It resonated with me, after having been married to a Jewish girl for a bit less than 3 years. I would so love to have that time back, what a mistake..............
It was almost like an unpardonable sin to her.
This lady is a hypocrite. She uses tons of vitriol and is very, very nasty towards Republicans, especially the Conservatives, and has accepted the left's total demonization of them. She certainly should not talk about vitriol or demonization being a typical nasty, nasty leftist herself!
My main point was that conservatives and liberals typically live in worlds which are so different from each other, either due to geography or self-selection of friends and social groups, that typical conservatives often have very little personal contact with extreme far-left liberalism unless they deliberately choose to become politically active and inform themselves about how bad the nut-case nonsense has become. Those of us on Free Republic are likely to know much more about liberalism than our friends who agree with us, but that's because we've deliberately chosen to inform ourselves.
From your screen name, assuming you live in New York City (BTW, my church membership was once in Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village, which for a long time was the only evangelical church in that ultra-liberal area) I certainly grant that you are one of the conservative Republicans who deal with far-left liberals regularly. You can't live in NYC without doing that.
You probably know the statistics better than I do, but aren't something like 85 percent of New Yorkers Democrats? Is it not true that there aren't many Republicans there, and those who are Republicans generally are either the Giuliani type of “RINOs,” and more strictly conservative people generally keep their political views mostly to themselves? RLMorel’s story about the left-wing Massachusetts woman who was shocked to find out she was working next to a Sarah Palin supporter resonates with me. I've never tried to hide my political views, but I've usually been the token conservative at most places where I've worked and the usual attitude has been surprise that a Republican like me isn't a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal and that it's actually possible to make it through college without becoming at least moderately liberal.
If someone is going to live in New York City as a conservative Christian, there's a pretty good chance they're not going to want to have their kids in the public schools for both moral and academic reasons. While I have no problem with Christian schools or homeschooling (I attended public schools, our niece who lives with us goes to a Christian school, and I know many homeschoolers) it does tend to cut young families off from their community except in the workplace. In addition, if the wife is a full-time stay-at-home mother, that means only the father is going to have extensive contact with the “outside world” of secular liberals through work. Even if that family sends their kids to Stuyvesant High School or one of the other academically elite public high schools in the city, they're going to be in contact mostly with a subset of New Yorkers that is not representative of the city at large. Most Christian families who take their faith seriously are rather careful to protect their children from problematic influences if they go to public schools, and even in that environment, friendships are going to be determined largely by shared values.
Of course, if we're talking about secular conservatives, that last paragraph doesn't apply as much. I know lots of secular conservatives who are very unhappy with the liberalism of their communities, but a decision not to send one’s children to public schools is a decision to isolate oneself from a lot of things in the local community in ways that don't happen as much if the children go to public schools.
Now change that scenario to a conservative Republican in rural America or much of the South.
In that context, while far-left liberals do exist, they're almost as rare as right-wing Republicans in our major liberal cities. The typical Democrat is likely to be moderate or even (especially with the older ones) somewhat conservative, and the definition of “liberal” is far more conservative than the standard definition in someplace like New York City or Los Angeles.
In that environment, conservative Republicans are isolated from liberals not because they've chosen to protect their families, but because there aren't many true liberals around. I now live in the South outside a large Army installation, and the definition of “liberal” around here would be most people's idea of a conservative Republican when I lived in New York City. I could name a few true left-wing nuts around here, but they have virtually no influence and the Democrats try to shut them up, knowing that when they open their mouths they embarrass their fellow Democrats and lose votes.
The end result is many left-wing liberals and many right-wing conservatives simply don't have a lot of social contact with each other. There are obviously exceptions, but I think in general most conservatives who don't pay close attention to politics don't realize how bad liberalism has become, and articles like this shown to us by the original poster indicate that most liberals don't have much contact with conservatives, either. Even in this article, the Republican man is a Romney supporter who got talked into thinking Sen. John Kerry is a war hero, which means he can't be that conservative.
Later
That’s either one of the best satires I’ve seen in a while or just demented...
I think it's real.
Objectively, I think it's real because there are videos and other articles online about this woman and her boyfriend to back it up, some of which have been crossposted here on Free Republic.
Subjectively, she reminds me of a large number of women I knew in high school, college and the workplace before I moved to the South. Liberal feminists believe bad things, although I admit that some are nice people.
“I think it’s real.”
You are right. But good heavens, it reads like some kind of twisted self-parody.
This so reminds me of the “National Lampoon” producing parodies of other magazines but failing miserably with the National Inquirer parody because it was indistinguishable from the real thing.
Regards,
I’m not in favor of abortion. But now I’m wondering if it has a genetic basis associated with liberalism.
The guy should dump this neurotic nit-wit and find himself a conservative babe.
Good point.
The feeling is mutual. I’d rather remain single than be trapped with someone like her.
Maybe she should go lesbo, she’ll have a lot more success finding dates.
d) Those of us men in their age group who are still single have generally learned by now that greater happiness in life will be found in other pursuits than in marriage to such high-maintenance harpies. We’ve seen the train wrecks from friends’ mistskes, and we’ve become wise enough to realize that all these women want from us is a child and the requisite judge-ordered child-support payments.
Fair enough. You’re much more informed than I thought you were.
Gotta run now, but be well.
I had a similar experience with someone who I liked and respected for many years.
We were alone in the break room one day when I “came out” as a Libertarian Republican. She just kind of got this blank stare and she had this et tu brute moment where she actually said slowly, “Oh no. Not . . . you . . . too.”
It was priceless.
Heh, it IS funny. Liberals DO have their comical side, don’t they?
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