I quickly asked her if she had seen the “climategate emails,” and she had NO CLUE what I was talking about. This woman has a daughter in university and is employed as a professional by Marin County. It’s interesting to note that earlier in the evening she disclosed that she had spent several hours at Borders sipping coffee and reading “trash” magazines for free. She was fully versed on Tiger Woods.
In light of my vow, I let it drop – until we left the dinner table. I took her aside and diplomatically asked if she was familiar with the axiom, “Follow the money.” She said she was, and I asked her what she thought about “cap and trade.” My jaw almost hit the floor when she revealed that she had NEVER HEARD OF IT!!! I gave her a very quick encapsulation of the scheme to trade “air” as a commodity and the people who stood to benefit from it.
Then we got to Sarah Palin…
This was as the party was breaking up and we were headed for the door, so it was quick. Her position was that she did not like Sarah. I asked her why, and she said, “I don’t know, I just don’t like her.” So I asked her if it was like “feminine intuition or something like that,” and she agreed that was the case. So I asked her again, “surely you must have a reason for disliking her?” Her reply was something to the effect of a statement that Sarah had made about Bristol’s pregnancy. I said I wasn’t familiar with what she was alluding to, but I did ask her if she had heard Sarah say that “she could see Russia from her backyard,” to which she quickly agreed that she had. I pointed out that it was actually Tina Fey who had uttered that famous quote.
To make a long story short, I suggested that she needed to do her “research,” and told her that the internet had newspapers from all over the world for free. “Oh, like the New York Times,” she said. I hinted that the NYT might be slightly biased, and suggested for a start that she check the BBC (I didn’t want her head to explode) and the Washington Times. She honestly seemed interested in my suggestion, however her parting shot was,
“I won’t change, I’m a social worker, you know.”
God help us!
Rant mode – off.
You get bonus points for your patience and persistence.
You didn’t try to win a debate, you tried to educate a liberal.
Over Christmas, we will all have to engage the known liberals in our families, because the future of America depends on it.
We have no time or money to allow their foolish petulanxe tot dominant our politics any longer. We have seen how a complete political party has been radicalized to the point of overt Marxism,and only an outpouring of rage by the American public over the summer started a trend in the other direction. And that battle is not yet won.
As for Sarah Palin, there is no question that she HAS to be President No. 45. We will need an honest, hard-working person that is not owned by anyone to get out of the mess we will be in by 2012. When she says she’ll be “fighting for you”, she means it, because she has always done that in her political career.
There is also no question that she can connect with people at all levels, and she can converse on almost any subject. She is showing, without the shackles placed on her by the McCain campaign,the media, and the Alsakan Democrats, what a powerhouse she really is.
When you think about it, her Facebook postings have singlehandedly exposed ObamaCare,Al Gore,Cap and Trade, Climate Change, etc. And she is just a housewife and hockey mom with no political office right now.
She could have gone home and stayed there after all that has been said and done to her and her family. But she showed that her love of country is more important than feeling sorry for yourself and has chosen to engage the debate. She soon will own that, too.
You did well with your liberal social worker. I love the way she went to a bookstore, sipped coffee and read magazines for free in a place that has employees to pay and a profit to make. Typical government worker drone.
I have similar experiences. When I tell them what's in the health care bill they say they don't believe it, it is all FNC talk radio lies. They still depend on government controlled media. They will be even more unhappy as days go on. Meanwhile 'it's all republicans fault Obama is stuck'.
Ironically I hear the same defenses of Obama that Bush-bots use for Bush. “Obama is too nice a guy. He needs to be tougher with those mean republicans”. Sound familiar? “GW Bush is too nice a guy...”
That explains so much right there.
REDUNDANT !
Liberals do not read up on anything. I actually voted democrat through 1992. Yes, I voted for B.J. Clinton! By 1994, I was a proud voter for the Contact with America, and I was subscribing to National Review and Weekly Standard and listening to Rush.
I can say that in my liberal days, I was uninformed, and got my "news" from op-ed pieces and NPR. I have read tons of stuff since becoming a republican/conservative. I can say from experience that liberals only have a vague "feeling" about things, much like the brainless lady you described.
Lefties and brain dead old style democrats don’t pay attention to the news. The only news they see is the alphabet channels or what they read in trash magazines and the Comedy Channel.
They stay away from current events regarding what actually is going on politically because much of it may disrupt their indoctrination programming.
And yes, we are in deep doo doo. They won’t get it until the lefties leave them totally impoverished, dead, and bereft of any freedom. Then it will be too late.
These people can’t even be bothered with educating themselves on the issues. They are lazy. They simply latch onto a soundbite. Amazing for so-called “educated” people.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
Good job.
I once had a conversation with a public school teacher from back east. He was earnestly explaining how he teaches Revisionist History, as in explaining European exploitation of North American Indians to his young class.
I asked him when he was planning on moving back to Europe. He asked me what was I talking about, I then told him if he still felt guilty about something why the heck didn’t he do something constructive like move back to Europe. He shut up and didn’t bother wasting any more of my time. Ignoramus teaches kids somewhere. Go figure.
Zombies eat brains. Take the highground and remember that only a headshot will do the trick.
Fun read. Entertaining. But why the redundancy in the header?
Trying to get a liberal (really leftists) like that to think for herself is futile. It’s like trying to teach a pig to sign: Can’t be done, just annoys the pig.
She really is a useless idiot (my term for Stalin’s “useful idiot”).
Protecting her job security. Wish we could pay them just a little bit more than minimum wage.
She will be the first one in the line to the camp train to say, "I don't belong here. What is this all about?"
I am beyond trying to reason with folks like this. Mentally, I am at the next phase, as I believe the time to dialog with ignorant 8-yr olds is past.
These are the people we will face on the field of battle when the Civil War comes. However, I get the feeling that the 69th light infantry and felching brigade will call in with the sniffles on the eve of battle, so no worries!
Actually Sarah didn’t say she didn’t believe in global warming - she said she saw the effects of warming and took action (I don’t remember exactly what) but she assigned a group to look into what was going on in Alaska. She just isn’t sure it’s caused by people.
The uninformed, like this closed minded social worker, are taking this country down a horrible path.