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

Hello darkness my old friend...

What a long, strange month it's been....

So I've been doing a lot of driving this month and been getting my share of nasty gestures (man, those republicans are horrid fucking losers--really courageous, too, the way they drive beside me, honk their horn, give me the finger--or a thumbs down--and then zoom away, like I'm packing fucking heat, or going to risk an accident to chase them down and get their license number so I can call the police and say the mean old man flipped me the bird)--it ought to be a whole hell of a lot of fun when Romney gets his ass kicked on November 6th.

Anyhoo...I happened to walk out into our parking lot to check for carts while at work the other night, when I saw this bumper sticker (somewhat surprisingly because I work for a non-profit, running a thrift store, and we cater to two kinds of customers:  poor and poorer) that said, "I'm Voting for the Mormon, not the Moron."

Those republicans are so fucking clever--regular Dane Fucking Cook's they are.

So...my question is this:  when did holding a differing opinion become, uh, stupid?  I mean for the life of me, I might consider Mitt Romney to have mistaken beliefs, I might not think much of him as a man or a human being, but I would never believe a man who has achieved what he has in life is stupid.  Greedy, yes.  Self-serving, yes.  Patronizing?  Definitely. An egotistical prick?  Yup.  A moron?  Nope.

But his followers?  You betchum, Red Rider.  Because anyone who believes that a man who graduated from Harvard, became a U. S. Senator, and then President of the United States is a moron is stupid.  Frighteningly so, and one can only hope that their idiocy will spare us the possibility of their breeding and infesting the country with more idiots.

Peace,
emaycee