Too many right wing loons!
For some years now I have been reading THEHILL.COM, and particularly the pundits blogs. There are so many right wingers on this site and they have, for some time now, been spouting the same party line. Not talking points, but themes. I have chosen to respond to several of these pundit blogs, especially when they lie so blatantly. I have had exchanges with a couple of responders who are full out supporters of these blogs. I would like to engage them in dialogue, but can't as yet figure out how to do so.
Having grown up in an alcoholic/catholic home, I am too well aware of the family need to "appear" normal and happy and all is right with the world. Bush and co presented to me that same scenerio and it continues. In the early nineties, a friend said I should check out a guy named Rush Limbaugh. I did. I could not listen for more than a few minutes. I had never heard such hate and rage and aggression in my life. Not even in my own family, of which there was a great deal of disfunctional rage and hate and aggression. But Rush was way out there. My friend said that Rush was a powerful voice and was reaching millions. I told him that we were headed into a dark ages, one that would put the medieval dark ages to shame. Over the following years I have seen how we have come to stare into that dark ages. But back to my point...
Finally, after reading their constant barrage of 'conservative' bullshit, I began to simply respond with a variation of this:
"For thirty years we have had the Laffer curve, supplyside, voodoo Reaganonomics, with deregulated free markets. Capped off with six years of Bush/republicans having complete control and ruling, not governance, but RULING, finished off by two years of republicans stopping any change in course. Result: complete, utter failure. Laffer curve theory works swell in a controlled lab environment. The world is not that. It is filled with venal humans. Driven by greed. Envy. Hate. Etc."
Those people who always yelled back at me began to yell that I was repeating myself. I responded by saying that every time a republican or a minion lied, I would speak the truth.
I do know that this current republican incarnation is not the party I knew growing up. I was never a republican, far from it. I am so far to the left I usually can't see anybody else. I make no apologies about it. However, I do not like to demonize; I saw enough of that growing up, even outside my own family. I simply would like to exchange ideas and thoughts and find common ground to move forward.
Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking there is softness here. You come at me, I will kill you without a thought. You made your choice and I will make you live and die with it. Life is precious to me; my four legged friends have taught me well in that regard. But if you have made the choice to step outside, I will take you down, even if it means I go down with you.
I am trying to get to a place where I can let that hate/rage/aggression flow past me, but it is a long way off. I know that it hooks me in and makes me crazy, like them. That is an exhausting way to be. Too much psychology now, forgive me.
I simply would like to be able to exchange ideas and thoughts with people who do not think or believe as I do. And I am trying to be open in response. Thank God (yes, I believe in a higher power; my four legged friends have shown me the way) for my life, for their lives, for your lives. Blessings to you all.