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« on: October 11, 2012, 01:51:35 pm » |
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I was at my completely horrible excuse for a medical supply store this morning. While I was waiting to get a fax from the Doctors office verified (don't ask) about getting new batteries for my chair...there's a bunch of (5 it looked like) old farts, sitting around in their larks. They're talking politics and every one of them, minus the older lady in the group, is talk'in politics. They're ALL vote'in for Romney. Blah, blah, blah. I was listening to the completely misinformed rhetoric flying. Kept to myself, biting my lip and all the sudden this gram-ma pipes up, "you're a bunch of fools!"...and she starts rattling off stats and policy and pending legislation and legislation trying to make it to the floor...holy shit, it was a whirlwind of information...no...a tsunami. She laid into those old fucks like a machine. I thought maybe Kelly quantum leaped into an old geezer, ha!
One old man from the group, tried to hold the line...rebuffing her, feebly...the others just kind of were looking around...like most people do who are misinformed idiots...they don't want you to confront them with facts, information...they just want to roll around in their particular reality, unchallenged. And if you do challenge them...they want the words, "that's BS", to signify that you're suppose to shut up now and they can go back to the reality they prefer. I've never understood that mind set. Good, bad, indifferent...I want to know. I can adjust my reality accordingly...even if it's not something that sits well with me. R or D...if it's the truth, it's the truth...give it to me. I can whine or be thrilled later.
I gave the old lady a thumbs up as I was leaving and she shot me a big ole smile.
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