Who wants conflict?
I don’t want it in most aspects of my life, and most people don’t want it when it comes to politics. But I love a good political fight. I love saying “I’m voting for the White guy”, just to tweak people. Maybe it’s because I live in such a Liberal city (NYC), and because, for years, I considered myself a Centrist Democrat who hated cardboard cut out Left wingers, since I grew up in an area where Democrats were old school Southern Blue Dogs.
So when I became a full fledged Conservative (thanks to Rudy Giuliani making NYC livable again, with 9/11 pushing me completely over the edge), I’ve gotten such a kick out of being politically incorrect.
But I know most people aren’t like me. They don’t want to be controversial or ruffle anyone’s feathers. I can’t relate to that at all, but then again, I’m a FReeper, right?
I too have been more bold in political conflict than normal. I might have lost a client to politics. I was showing a liberal Californian property in Oregon, he wanted lots of trees and started complaining about how us Oregonians have “slaughtered” all of our trees.
I said, “Slaughter? don’t you think that is a little strong, that word would be better used to describe the 40 million babies that have been slaughtered in the womb for the past 39 years, we harvest trees, you slaughter babies.”