Posted on 11/24/2004 2:42:43 PM PST by mlmr
I lost an old friend today. No, she didn't die. She screamed at me for my many-year metmorphisis from rad-liberal to conservative. She doesn't understand why I have changed, and is unable to listen because she is filled with bile, anger and hate. She wishes Bush evil and hates US policy. She has turned into a Michal Moore robot.
We have not been close friends for many years but I did enjoy keeping in touch. Because of our thirty year history I have treated the friendship gingerly but with great fondness.
Politics is hell.
Between the weather,the Red Sox,the Patriots,and all the small children running around there isn't too much intelligent conversation anyway. LOL
A wise man once told me to consider yourself a very lucky person if you can count your real friends on one hand when you die .
I am feeling pretty friendless tonight.
Psst, spellcheck is your friend.
Thanks.
she was a raving Maoist. I haven't laid eyes on her for twenty five years.
I am getting older, and friendship is dear.
Ah, but the trick is to remain in some way or other part of the ties that bind: our humanness. Read Solzhenitsyn, who tries to find the common bond with the jailor who stares at him, or St. Paul, who claims that we no longer look at people "according to the flesh." Of course this is far from friendship, but it may be the cause of friendship.
Doesn't look that way, to me...
"My neighbors have become less communicative since the election...although the children still play well."
Sounds like a win - win situation.......obviously the children are brighter than the parents, and you don't have to put up with the boorish adults!
It's so sad that she is too blind to realize that it is *she* who supports the killings of ***millions*** (a la the Hussein reign of terror) in Iraq.
It is funny. I told her that I believed that Iraq, in my opinion is the beginning of WW4 and is essentially a clash of civilizations. She didn't even have a framework for that throught.
She seems to be one of those crazed liberals that probably CRIED when they lost.
Sad----she'll be miserable for the next four years no matter what happens.
I am going thru this now with a friend of 30-some odd years. I am to blame for all the social and political injustices in her narrow, little Noam Chomsky world.
I know Chomsky's work well. I didn't know that you were the cause.
I agree with you but I was speaking about closer friends and acquaintences who I lost a lot of respect for in their willingness to compromise their integrity. I didn't become their enemy, but they just quietly became 'christmas card' friends and I otherwise blew them off whenever I could.
Life got better.
Same thing just happened to me, a real old pal. He called my views "obnoxious and offensive" and invited me to substitute the words "kike" or "bastard" in a column I wrote -- quite a moderate column -- just to see how it felt. I told him he was out of his cotton pickin mind. Haven't heard from him. This is the second time he's anathematized me -- note that it's always the liberals who do the anathematizing, not the other way around. The first time, he had sent me a joke about Elian Gonzalez. I replied that I didn't find much of anything funny about Elian Gonzalez. And that cheesed it. He just blew up.
I picture many Thanksgiving dinners looking a bit like the scene in "Scent of a Woman" when Al Pachino goes to his brothers house.
We really have Bill Clinton to thank for how divided the country has become.
Coming of age in the 1960s
We are both Boomers.
It seems that the "pro's" in Washington handle it the same way. They'll cheerfully gut each other on the House floor or the well of the Senate and at the end of the day they'll all go to lunch at the same club. Kinda refreshing when Dick Cheney told Pat Lahey to do something anatomically imposable but physically interesting to himself!
My radical, militant, commie-atheist mother-in-law is coming for Thanksgiving dinner.
She will refrain from mentioning politics, religion, etc. or she will go home with the turkey on her head like a helmet.
We'll send out for pizza, and eat stuffing and veggies.
(I hoped she would be boycotting Thanksgiving because of the election reslults, but she can sniff a free meal from 40 miles. Typical liberal.)
But I am GREATLY enjoying being on the winning side for once. The grin on my face hasn't disappeared since Nov. 3rd.
Me too. But not with this friend.
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