The difference between us and them

This will seem petty to some, but I truly believe it illustrates the difference between Liberals and conservatives.

If you've ever worked for a retail establishment that offers shopping carts to its customers, you know what a royal pain in the ass it is to collect the carts once customers have stopped using them. It doesn't take long for a parking lot to look like nanobots gone wild.  And it's even worse in winter, when it's freezing and the wind is whipping them from one end to the other.  Some people may not realize that often those carts slam into parked and moving vehicles, and said retail establishments are financially responsible for those accidents.  Actually, its customers are:  there is a percentage added to the price of every retailer's wares to cover the dents and scratches caused by errant shopping carts (among other misfortunes).

All of which is why those persons responsible for collecting such carts are very greateful for those kind souls who return their shopping carts to the cart corrals after they've loaded their cars.

Yesterday, the Beautiful Girl and I went for our bi-monthly grocery shopping trip.  After we had finished shopping, as we were loading up the trunk of my car, I noticed the person parked next to me had several bumper stickers on the back of his or her car that were, shall we say, less than kind to those of us of the Liberal persuasion.  I thought it somewhat humorous that the car was next to mine which is covered with bumper stickers much more supportive of our point of view.  Once the trunk of our car had ben filled, being a kind soul, I turned to return our cart to the corral.  As I did, the gentlemen who had parked next to me pushed his cart to his car and began to unload it.  My first concern was that he would make some untoward remark to the Beautiful Girl who is officially neutral in the political wars.  But he emptied his cart rather hurriedly, left it just where he'd set it, got in his car, and quickly drove off.

And that is exactly the difference between us and them I mentioned at the start--they just don't give a fuck about their fellow Americans.  It didn't bother him that other cars wouldn't able to get around the cart he'd left in the middle of a parking spot, didn't bother him that some poor kid making seven bucks n hour was going to have to drag ass his cart through the snow out of harm's way, didn't bother him that his cart could go whipping in the wind into another person's car and damage it--instead of simply walking 5 to 10 feet to put it in the corral.

It was as if he thought himself privileged, the task beneath him, the rest of us his mere servants.  It was an utter disregard for his fellow Americans, and the reason that it is not just enough to defeat republicans, but that we must annhilate them.

Peace,
emaycee