I’ve had discussions about politics before with family members about why they feel I’m crazy to vote Democrat. I’ve heard the usual semi-racist and bigoted reasonings until I wanted to jam icepicks in each of my ears or take a straight razor to their tongues.
“Don’t you worry about illegals crossing the border? They’ll murder and rape anyone they can get their hands on. You have daughters, doesn’t that scare you?”
“Don’t you want a return to ‘family values’? We’re a Christian nation, after all.”
“So you’d rather give all the high taxes you pay to people abusing the welfare system?”
I hear all of this Fox News propaganda from people I USED to respect, at least to some degree. It’s all I can do not to laugh or start raising my voice at them. So as a compromise, I start laughing loudly. In sort of an “I’m about to take over the world, and MUHAHAHA!” kind of way.
That usually throws the Bible-thumpers and gun-humpers off just a little bit. But they’ll pray for me.
I have two daughters and a Bride that I love very much. These three people alone are reason enough that I’d never vote Republican in this lifetime. My Bride is half-Vietnamese, one daughter is also part-Vietnamese, and my other daughter is gay. Enough said.