Musings of a Morerate....

I hate politics. I had one hope during this election cycle, that at the end of it, I would be able to have rational discussions with my family members who were of a different persuasion than I on some of the bigger issues of our time. In the end though, that has not happened.

Story:

My fiance, my beautiful kind Jessica saw a show on Faux Noise (aka Fox News) in which they were actively comparing Obama to Hitler. Not to belabor the point but this has no intellectual integrity, this is the kind of fear mongering I had hoped would go away or atleast be stamped out. Well this was a big fight between jessica and her parents because they didn't see the big deal in it although they agreed that it was over the top. Well the next day at lunch, being a social guy, I decided to sit down at my favorite place here in town for lunch with a complete stranger. We agreed that we both wanted to eat and their was only one table for 2 open. So to me, this was a great example of sitting down with another human being and just having a nice time seeing another world view if only for a moment. Well, conversation nds up in healthcare land and this bovine moron actually starts parroting this shit about the third reich.... sorry folks if you are a nice person and are being led down this path by the fear mongering wackos out there... take a breath look at the facts and walk away from the television...

Well anyway, in a rage I post to facebook about how the wackos that were actively propogating this were idiots and I guess they were like Republicans Code Pink... the lefties screaming wackos... well in the end my mother in law reads this and is deeply offended thinking I am calling her names... a part of me might have been needling her.. that was my mistake but honestly... obama and hitler? where does this leave us? What does this mean... does that mean the neo nazis in america are going to get behind Obama??? I mean what are we talking about people... and my family!! that is what I hate more than anything else that I can't talk to my mother in law an incredibly articulate and intelligent medical professional, about the health care reform bill so that she could really educate me on what is going on here.... welll I can't talk to her about it because obama is a hitler wanna be... In response I delete my facebook profile.... I think if we can't do this face to face we just can't do this...