inquisitive_socialist
17th September 2004, 00:33
i recently went to the GOP hq in my home town to talk with someone about why it is exactly that i should support bush. i had previously gone to the Dems hq and they were receptive and kind, if alittle repetative. the people at the GOP hq howver, were rude to the point of insulting. i began a conversation with one of their representatives only to have another come up and interruprt every few minutes to tell me i was wrong. i could barely finish a sentence so eventually i told the lady to please stop so i could talk to her friend. she got VERY angry and said i had no right to tell her to stop, she was an american citizen and could do what she wanted and if i had a prolem with it, to go back to russia. wow... how stupid right. well then, she said that i didin't even have a right to be talking(after telling me it was a right as a citizen to say what she pleased) about capitalism as evil cuz if its so bad, how did i get to the hq? i told her i walked like many who cant afford cars or are denied the chance to own one. she asked what my parents did and i told her my mother was a doctor and my father builds guitars. she said its not like i couldn't afford a car, obviously we're rich. i was somewhat angered that she made such a generalization about my family and asked her to take that back. i told her she had no clue what kind of life i lived and it was not her place to make such statements. i told her we are actually in debt, as are many doctors now as the government allows hmo's that the GOP supports to gouge whatever prices they want on malpractice insurance. she kicked me out of the GOP headquarters and called me a silly communist. does any of this strike anyone as somewhat odd? i went for a discussion, not to be attacked. the dems,while still supporters of capitalism, a system i abhor, were polite and well mannered. they let me voice my arguements and then gave me intellgient answers in return. why are older conservatives so phobic of socialists/communists?