I usually don't have really bad days. Usually my days are either boring, exciting or happy. Yesterday was not that kind of day. I went to work, and it was a normal work day for me. I was my sarcastic "up-in-yo-face" self all day long. Then, I'm not sure how we got onto it, we started a political discussion. I have learned almost everything through experience. It just doesn't hold it's weight unless it actually happens to you. Well, yesterday, I learned not to talk about politics at work unless work is politics.
My side was, of course, conservative and republican, and almost everyone else was liberal and democrat. My stand was: Obama is ruining the foundation our founding fathers set, tearing down everything we stand for, and putting our nation in the way of harm. Their stand was: Obama is the best thing that ever happened, he's our first black president, and that was it. They couldn't back up a thing they were saying. I came at them hard with facts and evidence to back up my views. They came back with this question (because they couldn't think of anything else): Who would you rather be president? Sarah Palin or Barack Obama?
Now, what I should have done in that moment was stop and think. It was a trap. With the way the news was covering Sarah Palin, they were making her look like a wreck, so obviously these peoples views were that she WAS a wreck and not fit to be president. Instead, I went in head first with my opinion (and my facts). They shot me down. "Sarah Palin isn't fit to be the president! She can't get her priorities in check. At least Obama can take care of his family!! Sarah Palin has a mental child! She can't take care of the United States". Now. Hold on. Stop right there. Did he just say "Sarah Palin has a mental child, so she can't take care of the United States???" WHAT? This was what really ticked me off. As some of you may know, my brother has mental issues, so that hits home with me. How, in the WORLD, can you say that she can't run the United States just because she has a special needs child? That's just plain ludicrous right there. I think if anything, it shows that she could in fact run the United States, seeing as how she can take care of a special needs child. Of course she's not perfect. No one is. She just has more of her problems exploited, unlike Obama.
The next thing they said made me mad, but it was more of an inward mad. I didn't show it. They said they wouldn't want her to be President because she's a woman. Okay. So. They're sexist, blind, stupid, and "Obama Mummies". They haven't researched the facts. They just walk with their arms in front of them saying dumbly "O-ba-ma. O-ba-ma. O-ba-ma." Yep. They've been brainwashed.
After that, one of the managers broke us up, because frankly I was getting a little steamed. He wasn't on my side, but he's still my friend. He told me he shouldn't have started it, and he settled it with agreeing to disagree. But the other guy couldn't let it go. He could dish it out, but he couldn't take it. He told another employee that he doesn't like me because I like Sarah Palin. And he doesn't like anyone who likes Sarah Palin. Oh boy. When you start choosing your friends because of who they like in the government, or who they don't like, you've got issues. I was prepared to leave the whole debate behind us, agreeing to disagree, but he decided to take it personally and throw away a friendship over it. So, now I've got rumors spreading around work that I'm just like Sarah Palin, and I'm a liar (because of some of the facts that they didn't believe). Well, I guess that just happens sometimes. I was upset over it at first. But now, I'm just fine. I know that as long as I have radical views, and I search for the truth and I'm upfront with people, I'll be persecuted. Oh well. Time to move on.
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