I bet many of you have the same problem and that is our disgust for anyone who calls themselves a Republican. A few years ago my new wife and I went out to dinner with two couples. One guy made some kind of nasty dismissive remark about Democrats and instead of starting a fight at the restaurant I told my wife we’d never go out with that couple again.
I won’t socialize with Republicans unless they are totally ignorant as to why they are Republicans. I know that doesn’t make complete sense but if they understand what they are and they still want to call themselves Republicans and support Republican candidates, I want to be on the other side of the street. My family thinks I am a little crazy about this but they understand all the emails I write about politics and how awful the Republicans are.
more..jump over the holiday table but don't kick the turkey
I feel the Republican Party of today exists only for the most selfish pigs of our society. It’s either money or shoving their religious ideas down our throats. Those in it because they think the GOP will protect us better are plain imbeciles. They use hate and fear to put the electorate in a total spin and while they are delirious from spinning they pick their pockets, steal any funding that might improve their quality of life and wag the dog by creating GI Joe images to keep us in war to perpetuate more hate and fear. On top of all that they are always whining that they are taxed too high, even at 15%, and they never have enough.
I have spent a part of every day of my life, since Nixon, trying to get people to hate Republicans and the Republican Party and put them down whenever they have the chance. I strongly believe the Republican Party and the people who love and destroying this country. I’m not doing any lists because we all know how they are killing the prestige and the viability of America for the future.
I hate these people and the idea that I am saying this makes me start to wonder about myself. I wonder what all of you are doing and what do you do when you are placed face to face with serious Republicans, without 250 other people in the room.
Then what do you do when things get worse, like your daughter meets, falls in love with and plans a marriage with a guy whose family is Republican and so is he? Is this something need to ignored and not bring our feelings front and center? After living a few decades we know the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and we worry about our children with people so selfish and filled with hate and hypocrisy. Do you tell your child that these people are selfish bastards? Do you wait for a momentous event that clearly shows what horrible human beings they are and even then, what if the kid can’t see the forest through the trees?
Look at what we do here every day. How do we turn that off and should we? Perhaps if Democrats would have put these bastards down whenever we had the chance, the Republican Party and Bush, Cheney and Rove would be nobodies. Can you believe we allowed the Swift Boat scumbags enter and take over politics? Being conciliatory, polite and turning our heads..is that what we are supposed to do? I’m Jewish but if I was talking to Jesus I know what he would say. Is it better to turn the other cheek? Or, would it better to Republicans that they will not be welcome in our homes because they are not the kinds of people who we want to be around us, even if their son is marrying our daughter?
I don’t get along with everyone on here either and sometimes I get frustrated with some of the more progressive among us who have the same level arrogance as the Republicans and they too don’t ever let themselves learn anything new. However, I respect people here, even those who got fooled by Nader. People here have hearts, they are sincere and they care about others, even if they say something stupid once and a while. I got into a little thing with geekesque over Obama. I think anyone who votes for Obama or even Hillary now are fools because neither will win but these are fools that I’d rather have besides me in a time of trouble; rather than a Republican who’d sell you out faster than you could spell Bush.
Back to the family, what do we do for holidays? There is no way I am going to cook for and entertain arrogant Republicans. If we are put in that position for Thanksgiving, I already told my wife don’t count on me to invite these people to our table.
Everything doesn’t have to be about politics but how do you let that go and allow excruciatingly extruded small talk to be the discussion part of a holiday. When Republicans have fought so hard to lie and steal their way into power, how can we be politely civil with those who give them money and support? You’ve seen the Steppord Supporters at Bush rallies. Could you have those people at your holiday table?
Perhaps once there are children, they will take over the conversation, as we know their existence can dominate any social gathering that they are at. Guess who’s coming to dinner has new meanings. It is obvious what we think and what we believe is a lot more important than what color we are or where our parents came from or how much money we have.
I have no idea how Carville and Matalin do what they do. I couldn’t and wouldn’t want to. It’s all well and good to get angry but when is it OK for us to overlook someone being a present day Republican? If you had to make two lists, one for the good things Republicans do and one for the bad things they do, they would be very lopsided. How many good things can you think of? So there is nothing in-common to share with them other than our children and not even our children’s future because Republicans are pissing it all away.
So, as we approach the next and last Thanksgiving before the 2008 presidential election and the next and last Christmas, Chanukah, New Year’s, Passover, Easter, and July 4th, times when families get together and new polar opposite families try to keep the piece, what should we do? I really want to hear your answers because I am feeling a little rigid these days. I want to be rigid, resolute and not give up the principles I fight for every day but can it reach critical mass and destroy other good things in our lives? We can easily choose our friends but family is what we are given but is it right to be polite and ignore the elephant in the room or at the holiday table?
I am very curious to hear your answers and it possible could you preface your answers with what generation you are from, male or female and what you do for a living. If you are a clinical social worker or a psychiatrist, it might be helpful to know that. I’m curious what you are doing with these issues and who is having an easier time with them.
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