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Email Print posted by Witness87 10/15/2008 04:23:41 PM EST

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Ok I swear to God I don't understand people. If anyone remembers I live in Texas. So lets just say I'm around a lot of what I don't believe in lol. What's killing me though is I open my mouth and tell people there wrong about the election and the candidats. Which is just starting to annoy me more then anything lol, because people don't listen.

My Question is why does everyone voting for McCain seem to make there excuse that there voting for him because Obama is a Socialist. Last time I checked the only Socialist thing is he's Health Care plan and even that isn't very Socialist. Please just explain to me where they come up with these conclusions. My head is about to explode down here. I have to admit I feel like punching a lot of people... Don't worry I'm not going to. I'm not willing to go down to there level.
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Probably just (none / 0)
too much Fox news and pack mentality...

Don't get mad at them, you won't convince them that way. They'll just get defensive.

-Jan (socialist)

by Scandinavian Chef on 10/15/2008 05:08:24 PM EST

I'm trying something different. (none / 0)

I'm trying to not say "you're wrong" so much.  I'm using "actually, that turns out not to be true".  Of course, every once in a while I run across an idiot, and you have to sort of knock them upside the head, but I'm trying not to give them much of my time.  I walk away from them with a perfected rolling-eye expression that says "Holy cow, does this person even know how to wipe himself?"

by EveningStarNM on 10/15/2008 05:24:09 PM EST

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Cenk covered this on Monday's show (none / 0)
"Socialist" is code among conservative right-wingers for the integrationist set. This was the charge that they used against MLK Jr, Bobby K. and Malcom X. For anyone over the age of 40, its fundamentally racist. For the rest, they likely don't realize what they've signed onto.

by hazmat on 10/15/2008 05:47:01 PM EST

Rule of thumb (none / 0)
90% of people who use the word "socialist" don't know what the hell it means.  Consider it a buzz-word whose meaning has become diluted beyond recognition through overuse by mockingbird right-wingers.

by OneHitKill on 10/16/2008 07:11:12 AM EST

of course you don't understand (none / 1)

after all, you live in texas---the heartland of redness.

if you actually were capable of understanding _anything_, you would have moved to a blue-state a long time ago.

by choosing to live among multi-generationally inbred, republican, war-criminal, rednecks, you have demonstrated yourself to be their equivalent, and hence, incapable of understanding anything.

move out. then, and only then, complain about the stupidity of other people. 

by neo on 10/16/2008 08:14:35 PM EST

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