Pearl-clutching Time

[oselle]

I know most folks have still got their glow on about Obama being elected but I'm not going to forget the way McCain and Palin and their supporters acted during this election and I sure ain't in the "water under the bridge" or "it's just politics" mode.

Republicans and conservatives were really showing their true colors and I hope America got an eyeful and an earful and realizes that they need to be marginalized. They are a fringe element, a cancer, the national brain tumor. I know a number of conservatives who see themselves as basically nice people with common-sense values but...no. Just no. If you were in the McCain camp then you were ready to put a belligerent, selfish fool and a terrifyingly ignorant bimbo with a mile-wide mean streak into the White House and you would have done it even after these last disastrous eight years. If you think that doesn't say something about you, about your intelligence, about your moral compass, about your sheer humanity, think again.

Never forget that your side was abominable. You showed what you are. And don't tell me about not being mean or how I should be "fair and balanced" or have some sort of polite drawing-room respect for your opinons. I'm under no obligation to respect hate, ignorance or flat-out brain-sucking stupidity. And neither is anyone else.

Comments

[janissa11.livejournal.com]

Amen, and thank you. It's been sticking in my craw all day.

Did you get my msg?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Yes I did get your msg. and that sounds really good to me. I could sure use a drink after work tomorrow and Tribeca's fine. I will call you tomorrow to solidify plans but please call me if anything changes.

[janissa11.livejournal.com]

Excellent! So far as I know that's the plan, but definitely call me whenever you feel like it -- I'm planning to head over for lunch with a friend by 2, then I'll just be, I dunno, wandering around until dinner. ;) Looking forward to it!!

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

I agree. I used to be a lot nicer and open-minded about these things, but the last year has taught me that life is too short.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I've had it with right-wing loonies telling me to be "nice." To quote their poster girl, the heels are on, the gloves are off!

[laerwen.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. It's so funny how this election has dragged the sewer scum to the surface. Now they're just trying to scatter like rats, as if politics is any excuse for their disgusting behavior.

I take comfort in the hope that their days are numbered.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think their days are numbered. They'll lick their wounds in the corner for a while and then they'll spend the next four years skewering Obama and the Democrats and anything they try to get done. It would be a GRAVE mistake to count them out.

[9ff.livejournal.com]

This is not an encouragement to be nice...

When I saw the concession speech by McCain I was particularly impressed with the shots of the gathered McCain supporters. Many of them looked stunned and lost - bereft of whatever it was that kept them hanging onto the mindset of aged, outdated beliefs.

Something shifted in the election process and it is clear that we have moved beyond the old paradigm. It is a time of amazing movement and opportunity. There is no room for the old hatreds. It just doesn't make sense to expend that kind of energy when we have a whole new day ahead.

I think the way the Republican party behaved these past several years abhorant and inconsistent with the future I would like to see.

But at some point, we also need to model ourselves what we want to see in the world. Bashing a group of people who know only fear and hatred of anyone that does not agree with their philosophy does not promote the future that we elected to come into being.

I think that it is a tribute to our compassion that we have the capacity to reach out to those who were so vehemently opposed to Obama and understand that in times of great change, there are always those who do not have the same vision.

My hope is that we can truly be the change we want to see in the world.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

We'll never change a goddamn thing if we waste our time extending a hand of compassionate understanding to maniacs. The right wing has proven TIME AND TIME AND TIME again that there is no "center" for them. There is no "moderate" stance. It's hard right or go fuck yourself and when we try to act like human beings to them they bend the country over a barrel and assfuck us. This isn't about "bashing" them. That's childish. This is about FINALLY calling them out on their foaming-at-the-mouth bullshit and telling them YOU ARE WRONG and YOU ARE CRAZY and WE DON'T HAVE TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.