Mein Gott in Himmel

[pecunium]

I think I just chased a couple of people out of the Peet's I'm in. They were talking politics, basically encouraging each other in their support of McCain. Which was whenI heard her (early twenties, still living at home, going to college; but ready to be done with it) say, "He's such an amazing orater, but I'm not sure he believes what he says, and that's really scary, because that's how Hitler came to power"

Which led to me to pay more attention... and when I heard her praising Palin, and saying she wanted to ask Obama supporters how they could compare the experience of the two... I went over and told them how and why.

The shocking thing... when I listed the qualification, including eight years in the Illinois Senate, and the con-law professorship and the Editor of the Harvard Law Review... she thought I was listing Palin's credits.

When I said that was Obama, and listed her failings in Wasilla, her companion (mid-twenties, male) said, "Well I guess you know who you're votong for."

They didn't look all that pleased when I said, "I was only anwering the question you asked," and went back to my work.

And they gathered up their things and left.

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

We are clearly on the same wavelength - we both want to increase the power of the people by empowering the people. For example, by increasing the wealth and well-being by, for example, evening the distribution of power-in-the-form-of-money and power-in-the-form-of-education.

Problem! Our culture violently objects to more equitable distribution of power-in-various-forms. The only way to enforce it, when electoral preference has repeatedly demonstrated this objection would be a short-and-temporary seizure of power. Only...

...Is the only way to make more liberals by dragging them, kicking and screaming, into a situation where a more liberal point of view makes more sense than an authoritarian one?