First I am totally new to KOS, I have known about it since I saw it on CSPAN a few months ago.
Anyhow I am in the unfortunate situation of dealing with my Fiancés extremely conservative parents on a daily basis. Let me qualify and explain.
As people, her parents are friendly, loving and very GOD fearing (I am too) Christian people. They also fervently support the GOP and Bush (I do not). They are well off living a comfortable life.
Whenever politics comes up its ugly though. My Fiancé runs from it, she claims to be neither Democrat nor Republican, but leans right on abortion. Her parents are different, they are typical Republicans, they like to debate and in a sense try and force a change in your thinking whenever possible.
I am of course very left, although not what they would term an extremist. I am pro choice but I do not think the partial birth abortions are something we as humanity should be doing.
Anyhow to the meat and potatoes.
I want you to hear what they have been using as talking points lately.
Earlier last week I spoke to her Mom on the phone and the topic of gas prices came up, she began to tell me how ridiculous the prices were and then began to tell me why the prices are so high.
She said 'We have not built an oil refinery in the states in 20 years because the environmentalists won't allow it'. She went on to say that because of this we can't refine enough oil to keep gas prices down.
I felt like sticking my head out the car window and rolling the window up on my neck when I heard this on my cell phone.
I told her, Wow, this is the first I have heard of this, as far as I know environmentalists need gas too to get around and hug different trees all day long.
After that I explained that she is correct in stating that no oil refineries have been built in 20 years, but not because of environmentalists, rather because there is plenty of oil and the oil companies had to find a way to squeeze the price of gas, so they simply squeezed the capacity of the system to drive prices up on gas.
I'm not sure the message sank in but I think she did recognize my reasoning as a bit more lucid than hers.
What I wonder is where they hear this crap? Well actually I know, they hear it on FOX and in some cases I think they just come up with this stuff on their own.
I also noticed in the last month or so that both of my fiancés parents have been blaming PETA for many things politically, not sure what got them started on this but I am quietly listening and along with their other views I am going to start blogging this stuff as a running log so we can all get a good laugh.
In closing I want to take a serious note. The people in New Orleans took a bad hit with Katrina, and no one could have prevented this.
The people of New Orleans then got screwed by the GOP, this administration and past administrations when they didn't get the rest of their Levies fixed.
What really makes me mad is that the money went to Iraq! I don't know how this group of people can sleep at night..
I look forward to hearing some of your comments!
Siro