Posted on 12/07/2004 8:05:12 AM PST by wzlboy
After the Election: Making Peace in the Suburbs
Sure, you should love thy neighbor, but one mother finds it isn't so easy when she discovered her neighbors voted for the "wrong guy."
The day after the election, I got a frantic phone call from the mother of one of my daughter's friends. "I just need to talk to another Democrat,"
she said, before letting out the bombshell. "Did you know that A.'s mother and N.'s mother both
voted for George Bush?" I hadn't known. And I was just as shocked as my friend was. One of these mothers is a union member; the other
is an earthy type who feeds her children only organic foods. I like both of them a lot. How could they have voted for
a man whom I consider to be a dangerous ideologue, who is making a mess of our country and the world?
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So this left-wing distraught 'earth' mother's idea of making peace is to throw out Hitler analogies regarding Bush voters.
This woman should move in-town to my neighborhood. She would be more comfortable surrounded my other angry hateful liberals
I agree that this "Bush-Hitler" analogy is terribly unfair and offensive, to say the least. And then they get angry when their patriotism is questioned!
As far as the greater point of the article is concerned, I have very few friends or family members who voted as I did, for Bush. We basically just agreed, without a lot of fanfare, not to discuss the subject. At work, there's more of a "balance" I think. I'm not really sure because I flatly refused to discuss my preference at all, and I didn't want to hear what other people thought. Rightly or wrongly, I just wanted to keep my advocacy in other places, not in the workplace. There's always enough to argue about there anyway!
You know, the thing is, women like this ask "WHY? Why would she vote for Bush?" But they don't make any real effort to FIND OUT why. They don't ask, or if they do, they don't listen to your response.
In the "old days", husbands and wives wouldn't even discuss their votes with one another. Now, instead of teaching the sanctity of secret ballots, teachers ask kids who they support, and then publicize these lists.
We would be much better off if people respected one-another's privacy about voting.
So true. I am fairly certain my husband voted for Kerry but I don't know for sure and I never will. This speculation hasn't stopped me from being a wife and friend.
The tone of this article was really disturbing to me. I never view my friends through a political lens. My brother-in-law is practically a Communist and we have a great time together. I would never stop liking and respecting someone because they exercised their right to vote. How bizarre!
That group think mentality is very prevalent in the legal community. There are lawyers who are unbelievably arrogant about having a democrat party only worldview.
The good news is that conservative minded lawyers are more able to speak up and discuss at gatherings. The left counts on halting the conversation by "thought crime".
The real interesting conversations happened around homosexual marriage and a lawyer who saw it as leading to more divorce cases. (she never realized that such short term marriages will not yeild money for her practice.)
Now on December 10 we have leftist lawyers who are trying to overturn via Bar Lobbying the prohibition of homosexuals adopting children. The leftists thought the board of governors would roll over and aquiese. They were surprised by the amount of disention that arrose. (the motion was withdrawn until Dec. 10 when the homo-advocates could explain away opposition.)
She voted for John Communist Kerry and has the gall to criticize somebody that voted for our nation's 1st Mexican POTUS?
RE: And I was just as shocked as my friend was. One of these mothers is a union member; the other is an earthy type who feeds her children only organic foods. I like both of them a lot. How could they have voted for a man whom I consider to be a dangerous ideologue, who is making a mess of our country and the world?
Who's the real ideologue? To me, someone who assumes that an organic food affeccionado, or a union member "must" be on the Left, is distorting things via their own ideology.
RE: The tone of this article was really disturbing to me. I never view my friends through a political lens. My brother-in-law is practically a Communist and we have a great time together. I would never stop liking and respecting someone because they exercised their right to vote. How bizarre!
Indeed. If I were to corrupt my relationships with a political lens, I would never speak to either my parents or a number of my friends ever again. It would be my wife and I against the world, here in the Kerry loving Bay Area. ;)
I diverge from you opinion re: Commies in your life.
I keep them in my outer circles. Never do I let blood relation stain my judgement about who gets into the inner most circle.
Nothing worse than sleeping with the enemy...
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