I just lost a longtime friend I considered very dear over this. Oddly, she likes to call herself a conservative, but I think libertarian is closer to the mark, as she’s strongly supportive of gay rights/marriage and abortion. We’d actually had a discussion about homosexuality and gay marriage shortly before I moved to Texas. We didn’t see eye to eye, but she gave me a respectful hearing even as she challenged me in some areas, and she seemed open to me backing up my statements with additional information.
On Facebook, she joined the ranks of those changing their profile image to a variation of the equality logo, which prompted me to follow up our earlier conversation with some more comments and links to articles that supported things I was telling her. Until then, she had always seemed open to new information, regardless of whether she embraced it as factual or not. She’s had to be careful in her opposition to Obama (she despises him and recognizes him as a dangerous Marxist).
Somehow, between our conversation last summer and yesterday, she abandoned any semblance of that open mind. She reacted to my e-mail with a vitriol that quite frankly made me contemplate the possibility of demonic possession (and she’s an actress in a popular vampire show, so I guess I can’t rule out that as an explanation). She called me a bigot, hateful and a Nazi, told me that she was not going to bother reading any material I had offered, and promptly unfriended me on Facebook. I was quite frankly stunned, as she had never displayed that sort of irrationality in the past. It’s left me very sad. I had actually thought she might be salvageable.
They very rarely are, sadly.
(she despises him and recognizes him as a dangerous Marxist).
Dn't need n Weatherman t see which waybama's wind
blws.
"Behind the Violence, Says Jane Alpert, Was Sex"--November 09, 1981--
"The leaders of the Weather Underground, she believes, followed a similar pattern of constantly shifting sexual alliances..."http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20080637,00.html
"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."
Source: New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1"...the Weathermen, when not engaged in group sex, committed such revolutionary acts as parading with a Viet Cong flag through a local park on Independence Day and spray-painting the walls of a high school with the slogans, "Off the Pigs," "Viet Cong Will Win," and "F#$k U.S. Imperialism."..."
Campus Wars: The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
"What happens next bears watching closely, as does the response of the president, ex-Speaker Pelosi, and others on the left. Encouraged by leftists in the Democratic Party and funded by left-leaning nonprofit organizations and celebrity contributors, Occupy Wall Street may in time morph into something resembling the radical factions of the late 1960s and 1970s."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/predicting_the_weatherman.html