What Is Up With Politics Today?

What is it I understand?  I understand why the country is the way it is.  I didn’t before…I thought that people were like me and open minded and rational, but I see now that I was wrong.  The majority of people are stupid and completely and totally irrational.  Yeah…that’s BS I’ve known for awhile that most people don’t see the world I do but I guess I thought they had reasons for disagreeing with me. 

Anywho what got me started on this little rant is a visit to my doctor.  I was stuck waiting for X-Rays for that pesky ankle and the radiology sections was packed with people talking politics.  I was happy for about two seconds till I heard the blathering…and was told the wait would be about an hour.  I tried to ignore them but the stupidity of the conversation finally did me in.  I’m only going to give you one snippet because I don’t want you all to have to suffer the way I did, but I do want you to suffer.  

First, the actors.

Older Gentleman – Nic e, opinionated but knowledgeable.

Older woman – Condescending, far right, rich (mummy drives a jag…papa was a ceo for some oil company…shoot me) opinionated but not knowledgeable.

Younger woman- Hispanic and apparently pretty well off

Setting – general discussion of the financial crisis.

Older woman – Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing he doesn’t have any business experience

Me: but he is appointing people to advise him who do have that experience

Older gentleman: (general agreement and referral to early portion of conversation)

Me: and he has quite a bit of other experience in various situations that could prove useful.  He was a college professor (thanks three…was going to point out that he would know what the government could and couldn’t do legally which would be useful with all of the government intervention that is sure to be coming up but NOoooooo)

Older woman:  Being a teacher and a businessman are two different things…you can’t become a third grade teacher by writing a paper.

Me: Uhm…I’m sorry I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

Older woman: Never mind the point is we should have elected someone who knew about business.

Me: Like McCain?

Older woman: He’d be better.

Me:  Ah…well maybe my understanding of his biographical information is off but I didn’t think he had any experience with business.

Older woman: Well he was in the war.

::my head explodes::

So yeah…an hour of that.   And being told Muslims are evil…that the 3^rd world war will be because of religion and it will be all the Muslims fault.  No reasoning with the chicks on this one…oh and the US had nothing to do with creating bin Laden , nope he’s just evil and I shouldn’t defend him and I just want ‘them’ to be able to come over and shoot her in the head (according to her).

So yeah…I understand now.  I should never leave my home and if I do I should go with an IPOD so I don’t have to hear the stupid people.

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