Undercover in a World of Democrats

September 29, 2008

This woman's pain is remarkably delicious . . .


by Kirsten Fleming

"I am undercover in a world of Democrats. No one could imagine I think Richard Nixon is as cool as designer Phillip Lim," says Kirsten.


IF you are my friend, by the time you finish this, you might not be. I understand. Can't say it hasn't happened before. But I am not a baby-roasting Visigoth or even a tax-dodging cheat. I am, simply, a Republican. (And yes, I've already heard that they are the same.) This supposedly tolerant city is more open to drug addicts and criminals than someone who has an elephant for a mascot.

According to the New York Board of Elections, Manhattan's 100,750 registered Republicans are dwarfed by the Democrats' population of 643,683. Add to that the city's assortment of nondenominational lefties, and the disparity looks something like the fashion world's ratio of fat to skinny girls. Republicans don't hold demonstrations along Fifth Avenue. Their mere presence in New York City for the '04 convention was so intolerable to liberals that more than 1,800 of them spent the night in jail in protest. It's righteous to be a Democrat. It's just plain imbecilic to be a Republican. That's why many of the Republicans I know live in the closet, admitting the truth to only close friends or random barflies after too many tumblers of scotch.

There's now a movement by indie filmmakers on Truththroughaction.org, whose goal is "to engage voters and provide them with…entertaining content that reminds them that being a Democrat is cool." The videos show a half-dressed young woman refusing to sleep with a bar conquest because she found a signed John McCain photo in his apartment while looking for a condom. The blue-balled Red Stater is left to contemplate why he can't get laid in this town.

I get it. You Democrats are cool and hot. We Republicans are high britches–wearing dorks. You have George Clooney and Scarlett Johansson. We have Heidi Montag.

Working in a creative industry—fashion and lifestyle journalism—I feel like I am undercover in a world of Democrats. They unknowingly bring me into their inner sanctum, lambasting the right without even considering the unthinkable: that I could be part of the cult of stupidity. No one could imagine in a million years that Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are, for me, in the same echelon of coolness as cult fashion designer Phillip Lim. I am a vegetarian. I wear Vans instead of the standard-issue closed-toe pumps. I don't have a wardrobe full of boxy Anne Taylor suits or even a briefcase. But because I believe in fiscal conservatism, reduced taxes and smaller government, I am a female Alex P. Keaton in hipster clothing.

And since the election has been getting hotter than Bill Clinton's libido, daily reminders of my minority status creep their way into my life. I see so many Barack Obama pins on the subway that a foreigner would be excused for thinking the MTA had endorsed him. I have yet to spot a McCain pin displayed on a lapel, but I guess I'm just hanging out in the wrong places . . .


more: http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20080928/Elephant+Room

Trust the NYPiss to advertise this poor condescending victimized Repuke as if she were part of an endangered species. Nice idea, but unfortunately not reality.

I can see it happening. :shrug:

And the sooner the better!

Since Republicans are neither fiscally conservative or do smaller government, the only possible reason she could consider herself a Republican is because she doesn't like paying for all of the services that allows her to live in a highly interdependent environment, like NYC. Good to know she's not worried about lies that allow us to invade and occupy another country, killing or displacing millions of those citizens. Good to know that she has no problem with the unregulated corruption and war profiteering that Republicans are known for. Good to know that she could care less about the constitutional crimes, like wire tapping or politicizing the DoJ that these bastards have committed. What bothers our whining little Republican victim is that she likes getting a break on her taxes.

Maybe she ought to wonder why she is in such a minority. Perhaps she ought to move to the boonies where she'll find more idiots that think like her.

. . . if she's expecting a tax break from McNixan

Poor whining victim....surely she'd be happier with the rugged individualists that hate abortions, but love Jeebus and their guns.

If she moved to said "boonies," chances are she would actually encounter a local government managed by local Republicans and see how they REALLY do things. She is living in a place that is operated/managed by Democrats and cannot see the reality of her ignorant decision to support the Republicans.

I would like to challenge her to live in any area around where I live. This place is overrun with Republicans who keep the towns from ever growing, make damn sure opportunities are for damn near slave labor at best, kill all art, have only culture that revolves around pining for the "golden" days before the Civil War, and she'd have to work a real local job as well. She wouldn't have that cushy fashion world job down here. She'd have to actually break a nail or 10 for a living. Her ass would run screaming from here within 1 month. The culture shock and lack of stimulation for the brain would be enough to drive the most innovative independent person mad.

Thank you for your post. I couldn't agree more. I just wanted to add my extra of $.02 worth to it.

We DID, you selfish tart.

http://www.twulocal100.org/

And Philip Lim's taste is in his ass.

and, Lim's not very original

I can relate to her pain. I don't care about her pain, but I do understand it. :evilgrin:

I see her situation as the same side of a different coin. I have been advocating a "domestic exchange program" idea for years now. Almost like "Wife Swap" except it would be called "Life Swap" and it wouldn't be televised. It would make for an interesting documentary though. It would just be a chance to learn about how the "other half" lives.

Maybe I should make a picture for her?

:nopity: Eight years in power just isn't enough. We've got to be cheerleaders for 4 more years of horrors, just so she can come out of her closet. Well, I hope she stays in it and invites her other chicken shit friends to join her.

I'm not sure which is more laughable: the idea that the Republican party is for smaller government and fiscal responsibility, or the idea that the person in that photo wears "hipster clothing." :eyes:

But go ahead and blame liberals for the fact that you can't get a date.

too much of a chickenshit to actually respond, and that's proof that Republicans are some kind of oppressed minority? Talk about a victimhood fixation.

I don't see anything in the first amendment that allows you to espouse reprehensible points of view while protecting you against others who wish to challenge those points of view.

Notions created to make political warfare acceptable (making the war between the United States and the Confederacy seem like a war between 'left and right'). A war between left and right... must be the most ridiculous thing ever conceived. Only trumped by the war between red and blue, diagonal and inverted, and 4 vs 11.

People, for 150 years now, the United States has been fighting the Confederacy. When the gun-fight ended, the political-fight began. Do you think all Confederates were killed? Of course they weren't... they went back to living, voting, and being elected, only to push the same ideas through government they tried to push through guns. Secessionism was only a means to an end, the war was about a separation of ideas.

Republican base for the past 40 years = Confederate States. Racists who wanted to keep their slaves = modern Republicans. The same northern army of whites and freed slaves = the modern Democratic party.

Please wake up, people. This is not a time in history to misunderstand your surroundings.