Posted on 10/20/2005 5:48:05 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
Rudeness plagues America.
Nearly 70 percent of Americans, according to a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll, consider people more rude than 20 or 30 years ago. Over the last 20 years, according to two prominent Democratic strategists, Americans engaged in a kind of "great sorting-out" -- staking out hard, well-defined, even intolerant, ideological political camps.
Now it all makes sense -- only one side seems a tad more intolerant than the other.
Take last Friday. After work, I drove to a local watering hole for my customary vodka and cran. A couple of anti-war Democrats and I began talking politics. While I disagreed with their positions, they made sensible, if unpersuasive, arguments. You know the drill: Bush built a case for war on bad intelligence; the cultural complexity of Iraq makes America's "imposition" of a democracy unlikely; the Iraq War now serves as a breeding ground for terrorists; other enemies like Iran and North Korea pose even greater threats to America; etc. But then another man, eavesdropping, decided to join in. Within five seconds, he called the president "an idiot." I let it go. Moments later, however, he changed it to "moron." All right, enough.
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Great article, and highlights the problems we Conservatives run into when debating liberals. I like to discuss specific events in question and solicit opinions, but for the liberal it always seems to degenerates into childish namecalling within the first 60 seconds or so. For me, it is an exercise in frustration when trying to have a semi-intelligent political conversation with my liberal friends.
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agreed..and once you confront them with facts, they start calling YOU an (insert name here)-hater, racist, bigot without ever once coming up with facts to back their argument..
Good luck, and fight the good fight.
...the enlightened Left. Sounds like an oxymoron.
LOL
But of course, the ONLY time we see the "enlightened" Left is as they exit the powder room.
Thanks.
I was able to convince her to watch the debates last year and she ended up voting for GWB because Kerry was such an arrogant, snob. There is hope.
I feel your pain. ;-)
Isn't Elder on Hannity & Colmes-glasses? He's always in a pissy mood, almost militant in his attitude. He's like the Farrankhan cult"ultra black".
This is Larry Elder. And here's a link to his website.
I'm pretty certain that he's not the guy you're talking about.
The author is much more reasonable than I. I had one of these interlopers interrupt a quiet conversation by literally screaming in my face; as I do not take kindly to rude and obnoxious liberals, I did the only thing possible, I stuck my fingers up the offender's nostrils and suspended him on his tip toes until he calmed down and acknowledged he had no business interrupting a private conversation that he had not been invited to attend. Of course, there was the usual threats of arrest, suit, etc for assault, but I quietly explained to the idiot that I was not assaulting him, just calming him down and at any rate assault would have occurred only if I had thrown him out the front window of the establishment, something I was seriously contemplating. In short, nothing happened to me and the interloper actually apologized several days later. I call it my bowling ball approach to liberals.
The author is much more reasonable than I. I had one of these interlopers interrupt a quiet conversation by literally screaming in my face; as I do not take kindly to rude and obnoxious liberals, I did the only thing possible, I stuck my fingers up the offender's nostrils and suspended him on his tip toes until he calmed down and acknowledged he had no business interrupting a private conversation that he had not been invited to attend. Of course, there was the usual threats of arrest, suit, etc for assault, but I quietly explained to the idiot that I was not assaulting him, just calming him down and at any rate assault would have occurred only if I had thrown him out the front window of the establishment, something I was seriously contemplating. In short, nothing happened to me and the interloper actually apologized several days later. I call it my bowling ball approach to liberals.
Tell your sister that the coat hanger should be the symbol of the Democrat Party - it's the one that cheers on abortion.
I have liberal relatives - don't bother keeping in touch with them anymore. Waste of time.
Well that can't be true in Atlanta where everyone is soooo nice and friendly. Yeah right ! LOL!
Atlanta ain't the south..not any more..
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