So I talked to my Fundy Neighbor this afternoon

YIKES!

Here are some prize gems:


After the Lewinski scandal, gonnorhea of the throat went up by 40% in teenage girls.

After WWII it took ten years before the Nazi Insurgents stopped killing American Soldiers and German Citizens.

Obama is a Communist.

If you criticize America you should just leave America.

The Republican Party is the party of Minority Rights :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The economy always does better under Republican leadership :lol:

etc etc etc



Oh man I swear... it's impossible to argue with these people either... as soon as you start to make a point they cut you off with more talking points. It's insane.

My Wife came out to smoke at one point and he nearly vomited when she told him about Palin's socialist scheme though hahah. Go Wife!

Seriously though, these people are pretty scary. Were they always this far right? Were they like this 20 years ago? Or have they all just been crazy brainwashed over the last decade or so? I'm 29 so I don't really know how far back this craziness goes...

Bizzaro World?

and then do the opposite. We need to start looking at people who are ALWAYS wrong as a resource.

Somehow he thinks that under Obama our taxes will go up 18% :rofl:

I tried to 'splain it to him but I don't think I got through :shrug:

Ah well there's no hope for these cats. He's a good guy all in all, just has some crazy RW crap running around in his head.

It amazes me how these folks can be so certain about the fundamental goodness of their mostly hatefilled policies! Unbelievable :crazy:

the last few times, twice by my memory, after they decided to leave the world of politics they got even crazier.

I suspect this has crested and next comes the traveling tent revivals

On the bright side, they will once again leave the world of politics to us secular heathen,,, who will continue to defend their rights to believe in whatever they believe... since that is the Murican way

to join the spaceship Kohoteck or whatever. Can we encourage more of this behavior? Darwin may have a point. Perhaps we could use it to our advantage?

social darwinism and Spencer's take on it. They saw it as a problem.. and not in line with Christian doctrine due to the society it encouraged

Now they have fully embraced social darwinism

And some folks need to beleive... hell some even exist in the left... it is a sense of safety given by (insert religion here) And in some cases those are political instead of involving a (insert deity here)

They said- Footprint of the chickenhawk.

Then there was America- love it or leave it.

And McCarthy. And witch "trials". And lynchings.

So I guess it all started with the birth of the second human being. Although I do think pretty highly of the specie, in general.

Yes, for some reason, the species seems to have it's good points. Don't ask me to list them.

I own a round, sterling silver lapel pin, about a half inch in diameter. It's a wild animal-supporting pin, which shows the footprint of a bird. When viewed as if the bird were walking toward you, the footprint -- three sets of toes & claws in front, one set pointing back -- forms a perfect, somewhat arty version of a Peace Symbol.

The bird in question is the American mascot, the Bald Eagle.

that sounds really serious, whatever the hell it is.

Yap clap.

That's great.

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Tell him to get the fuck out! :evilgrin:

simpleton views of others. If you talk smack, gossip,or fearsome rumors you ruin someones image and reputation. It is wrong and it is not just. It harms both the person it's about and the person who listens. It changes there point of view. It destroys trust and cooperation.

The Republican adoption of these tricks are harmful to our country. They are tricks and lies and they are not true. When they cherry pick clips to prove some propped up charge it should be illegal.

If it were true and not misleading then fine, but these accusations are ridiculous.

There have always been the gossipers and the rumor mill and the one's who wish to destroy others by starting rumors and guilt by associations,but these harmful lies and fear mongering have been cultured and fanned by the Republicans and their propaganda puppies.

I heard him tell his 2 daughters ages 11 and 12, that having sex with boys would get them STD's in their throats. Then he tired to tell me that having sex with women would cause sperm to harden inside the uretha tube, he insisted sperm hardens as hard as cement and if that happened the guy would have to get castrated. I stayed away from politics around this idiot, hell his crap about sex though good for a laugh, was hard enough to listen to. In 1979 he claimed Reagan was the second coming then in 1980 when he got layed off from his GM job he never said that. From 1980 until 1993 he lived on welfare, in 93 he got put back to work at GM, then started complaining about welfare queens making his taxes so high.

...I think he may have been basing that on what happens with his Kleenex.

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is on the rise, and not just in the US. Every time you make significant social change, the people who fear that change become more extreme. It is exacerbated when the economic situation is not going well for people. And, thanks to the systematic destruction of the government safety net and any protections for workers begun in 1980, people have been living with 28 years of economic instability from an average worker perspective. There have been short periods of economic comfort for people but the trend has been for higher demands and higher productivity with lower real wages and a climate that fosters a fear of job stability (even when the economy is good). Unlike many European countries, the number of hours/year that Americans work is going up, not down. That kind of national level job and financial stress takes its toll (even though individuals don't necessarily feel it, the current extremely anti-labor attitude has been institutionalized in this country since Reagan fired the air traffic controllers - workers know damn well that the federal government doesn't give a flying f**k about them and would massacre them in a heartbeat if their corporate overlords told them to). There is a reason why Marx called religion the opiate of the people. One thing that the RW has managed to do is to convince the people that government fundamentally does not have their best interests at heart rather than that corporations fundamentally do not have their best interests at heart and it is when corporations control the government (like now) that government is the same way.

One thing I do think is different recently than it has been in earlier periods of right wing fanaticism ... the right wing neo con extremists have the potential to reach larger numbers of people easier than ever through mega churches and cable. While groups like the PTL had started to achieve that in the 80's, the much larger number of cable channels has made that type of group grow. I think we are also seeing more home schooling than used to be the case and generally an increase in opportunities to keep children and young adults completely and utterly isolated from alternative view points (of course, part of that might be a reaction to the increase in access to alternative viewpoints via some of those media outlets as well).

I share your pain. I'm in IL right now, but I'm originally from KY. I didn't know people aside from my immediate family were were Democrats for the longest time . . .

Welcome to DU and Kansas both.I feel your pain,for I also moved from Tucson Az. To El Dorado Ks. and also have RW extremists for Inlaws here.
I miss Tucson...The Closemindedness here drives me batshit crazy!!!

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My crazy in-laws think the same. They still use the N-word, though, and have no problem dropping it around my children. THAT's the worst part of Kansas. I can handle conservatism, it's the hate-filled folks I don't like. MANY Kansas conservatives are normal folks with just conservative beliefs and good hearts though, don't despair!

I feel so bad for her that she has to be subjected to that.

She is 16 now, but was 5 when it started. My granddaughter just ignores her and said, she is old, and doesn't know any better.

10 years ago I dated a Republican true believer. He said the Indians killed all the buffalo, that only tax paying citizens should be allowed to vote, and that hunger in America was a myth.

:D

Guys like us, we had it made, those were the days"

Yes, they've always been here, Norman Lear created Archie Bunker from these paleo-morans and Raygun gave them permission to crawl out from under the rocks they were hiding under in the 70s.

Tell him to not knock it unless he's tried it!