I had an eye-opening conversation with a friend of mine yesterday on Yahoo Messenger. I know we are on far opposite ends of the political spectrum. We don't often discuss politics, but she was campaigning at a polling site yesterday and I was curious as to how it went, and then things just kinda went downhill from there. She introduce what (to her at least) were common conservative memes as if I would of course believe and understand them. I have cut-and-pasted our conversation directly, with several edits made for brevity's sake, and to remove "I still like you" reassurances on both sides. It starts mid-stream when things get odd.
As you read this, you can ask yourself what I was asking myself as we chatted: Is THIS really what the right-wing believes? Are they really THIS FAR down the rabbit hole? Or is this a bit much (please oh please?).
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