Rusted Sky

Hillary lies about health care. Obama lies about trade agreements, his plans for Iraq, and pretty much anything else to make himself look good.

What's the limit? At what point will the electorate supporting them go "Gag me with a maggot, Mildred, but there's no way I'm votin' for those two."?

Today at WalMart I almost got into an argument with a young cashier. He's very proud of himself - he's going to be going to Washington in some political capacity, I didn't hear quite what. He's promising to make things better 'once we get those damned Republicans out of there."

I should have been silent. I really should have.

And then he said to the couple he was checking out in front of me - "I can't stand Obama. I won't vote for him if he's the candidate'.

I really should have been silent. I told him I thought if Hillary gets in, our foriegn policy will go down the tubes, and our economy will follow it. He took great offense at this, point out that Bush has wrecked the economy totally, and only the Democrats can save it.

I told him to watch the Democrats for a couple of decades. (The kid was maybe 18.) He'll see - the Democrats promise, but never deliver.

I think he would have hit me at that if he could.

It was quite clear, in retrospect, that the kid has made a very serious mistake. He really, really believes that Democrats aren't gonna fubar the country. That the country IS fubared at this point, but they can fix it. He BELIEVES, and his belief would seem, in the minute or so I had contact with him, to be of almost religious fevor.

And he will not see that belief questioned.

For a person like that - what's the limit? What will it take to dissuade them from their idolation of a specific party?

Kind of funny - I did a google search on 'zealot' - and this was the definition. Notice the juxtaposition with the ads?
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Oddly enough - there was even a picture associated with it.
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Kind of fitting. Wonder what I would have gotten if I'd googled 'liar'?

J.