I was in my car this morning stopped at a long traffic light. There's a knock on the driver's side window. Startled, I look up, and see that the knocker is a man who looked a bit like this guy. He gives me a friendly smile and reassuring gesture. I roll down the window. "Your left tail light is burned out," he says. "You're all wrong about politics," he adds, apparently in reference to my various bumper stickers left over from the last election. "But I wanted to tell you about your tail light". I thanked him for the tip about the tail light.
It would be the left tail light.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 13, 2007 12:34 PM | Email ThisIn '04, I offered to help a very elderly, kind of hunched-over woman in Issaquah who was having trouble finding the strength to raise her car's trunk to get something out of it. I noticed she had a bevy of uber-leftist bumper stickers on the car. After I helped, I did NOT say anything about the bumper stickers. Why help someone and then spoil the moment by using the "Opportunity" to "correct" someone about their politics?
Posted by: Michele on January 13, 2007 02:57 PMThe only thing I can come up with is to keep asking him how the impeachment is going.
Posted by: G Jiggy on January 13, 2007 03:45 PMI have fun with them. A person like Stefan's tail light guy tells me that Bush blew up the Trade Centers or what not, and I tell them it's far worse than that, and I try to outdo them with some made up story that paints Bush as even worse than they had imagined. Invariably they are really thankful for the extra info, and they believe it wholeheartedly. I have yet to be challenged by anyone who I have played this little trick on and who fits this bumper sticker liberal persona.
That's the left in a nutshell. They are sheep because there ideology is always based on some form of collectivism. They want to belong to whatever their assessment of group values is, much more than they want factual reality. They've spent so long outside of thinking for themselves on important political and philosophical issues, that their sense of individualism has atrophied them into regression. As far as their political identity is concerned, it's similar to the way very old people often start to become like children again.
Posted by: Jeff B. on January 13, 2007 09:37 PM;~)
Posted by: BRC on January 14, 2007 09:48 AMWhile I do find a few half way educated liberals, they are few and far between.
I fear for this country.
While I do find a few half way educated liberals, they are few and far between.
I fear for this country.
Did you use reason and logic around that dim left bulb? I told you that causes them to go out sooner. There needs to be a federally mandated label on dim left bulbs "WARNING: This dim left bulb has extremely sensitive emotions that govern how bright it can be. It is adversely impacted by logic and reason. All logic, reason and common sense must be kept at least 200 yards away to prevent burnout."
Posted by: pbj on January 14, 2007 11:15 AMYes, it's natural that after a terrorist attack, you might lose some faith in your government. (I admit it - I spent a LOT of time asking "How could the most powerful government on Earth let this happen?")
But when you allow your shaken faith in government to turn into a hatred of those that were supposed to have protected you - instead of anger at those that actually did the attacking - that becomes a mental disorder.
Terrorists kill and maim in order to shake peoples faith in their own governments and to try to get them to abandon rational thinking. The irrational Bush haters are proof to the terrorists that they are having an effect and that more death and destruction will further their cause.
These bumperstickers might as well say "I love Al Queda" and "Kill a few jews for me." In the middle east, thats exactly the message they are receiving right now when they hear about all of the Americans' that "hate" Bush.
Posted by: johnny on January 15, 2007 01:51 PMYou may be a libtard if ...
You think, the U.S. needs a sign on the California-Mexico border that reads, "Watch for police batons next 50 miles."
You want Congress to buy a condom for the Virgin Islands.
You think talk radio is nothing but HATE SPEECH and you'll kill anyone who disagrees.
You know the media doesn't have a liberal bias and anyone that thinks so is a hate mongering anti-government extremist.
You think Ross Perot would make a good president if he had more hair and less ears.
You want anything but prayer, creationism and math taught in public schools.
You believe the Republicans sold the Liberty Bell to the Taco Bell Corporation.
You think Rush Limbaugh is the anti-Christ.
You've served on a jury in California and don't think orphans should be convicted for killing their parents.
You believe dope from Hope "didn't inhale" - or did. Hell, if you believe any dope from Hope about anything...
Posted by: juandos on January 15, 2007 03:23 PMWith an unpopular Republican president, you shouldn't have been surprised, being that you live in that area.
Posted by: KS on January 15, 2007 08:50 PM