The most confounding and frustrating part of this election year if you are--I was going to say "a liberal" but I mean to say "sane"--is the utter hopelessness, the rage you experience when confronted with the reasoning of Bush supporters. For instance, last night. G and I entered the subway station behind three young (twenty-ish) women who were singing the praises of our commander-in-chief. As we all reached the turnstiles one of them brought the conversation to a close, "Well, the thing for me, I mean, the bottom line is that you know Bush is a good man. You can't say the same for Kerry." The other two nodded in gleeful assent.
There is no way to have a dialogue with that. Sure, I've tried. I've tried with idiots of all description; sexists, racists, fascists. But the bottom line, as miss young Republican put it, is anyone who would pop off such a voter-friendly baseless sound bite is a moron. A half wit whose brain is constantly engaged in a rock, paper, scissors match where dogma trumps logic, where spin beats facts, every time.
Surprising me, and himself, G let out a long, loud hiss at the girl. From behind, a lone voice said "booooo." I opened my mouth to release what I'm sure would have been one of my classy, refined responses (along the lines of "Are you fucking kidding?") but just shook my head instead.
The girl giggled, caught eyes with her friends and said, "Ooops. Are we going to get into a fight now?" and laughed again.
You know what sister? I think we are.
Posted by Antigeist at October 19, 2004 10:32 AMWe're going to have the best civil war EVAR!
I've already picked out a really excellent rock.
Posted by: jpoulos at October 19, 2004 03:48 PMYears ago in my idealistic youth, I used to scream "REVOLUTION!"... I thought the only way to change the system was to ditch it-- as the saying goes, by any means necessary.
Then I got older, and wiser.
So now I scream it louder.
Posted by: antigeist at October 19, 2004 05:18 PM
G rocks. You can tell him I said so.
Posted by: z. at October 19, 2004 06:47 PM'Cause, y'know, like, um, justifying your opinions and stuff with, like, facts, is just so pantywaist liberal, right?
Posted by: Vidiot at October 20, 2004 02:50 PMActually, the thing that amazes me is that there are three Bush supporters in New York City.
Posted by: Vidiot at October 20, 2004 02:50 PMAnd yeah, all those, um, facts, and stuff. Like, who's coming up with all those, like, FACTS anyway-- right? Probably some freaky hippie who thinks there are actually starving people in America. Or that Saddam didn't have anything to do with 9/11. How can anyone think that? They said it on the TEE-VEE.
My dad doesn't pull over and ask for directions when we're lost, and neither does Bush. So he's a good man. Just like Daddy.
Stupid Bitches.
Posted by: anti at October 20, 2004 03:14 PM
My latest bit has been to scream "CRAZY STUPID" when presented with the Bush loyal. If that doesn't work, "CRAAAAAZZZYYY SSSSTUUUUUUUUPPPIIIIIIDDD" usually does the trick.
Posted by: Red Ghost at October 20, 2004 06:46 PMCan you have l'esprit d'escalier vicariously?
Here's my entry:
"You know Bush is a good man..."
"Indeed. Why, he hasn't used cocaine since 1974! And he had two drunk-driving arrests, but he never hurt anybody!"
Posted by: Vidiot at October 20, 2004 09:28 PM