Reply #81: The weird thing is [View All]

[LittleClarkie]

Some of the more hardcore freeps I know think Bush is going to turn out to be the best president ever.

I think 9/11 did strange things to some people's psyches. I think being in the middle of a war resulted in the kneejerk "we can't change horses" response.

I get preached to an awful lot on the phone when I was phone canvassing. Granted Wisc. is a fairly strong pro-life state. But those were hard calls. There was no talking to some people.

Plus the folks I ran into here who kept calling all Dems socialists and communists. I don't think I've ever run into that before. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention.

I actually got called a Communist for supporting Kerry. I asked the guy if he wanted a one party system. He said no, he'd accept the Republicans as the left wing party and another party farther to the right of that. Frightening. The Freepers are scary people, and I was shocked to find out how many I live next to. And if you go to swiftvets.com, you'll see how many of them were on that bandwagon too. The Scary Kerry people are just strange. I don't even recognize their reality.

One of the bartenders at the pub just loves Cheney, for example. Thinks he's a tough son of a bitch. Another guy, a goth who plays roleplaying type games, wants to just nuke the Middle East. Crazy people. I live next to crazy people.

Of course, I do know some Republicans who are repulsed by their own party, but there aren't nearly enough of them.

How do you reason with crazy people.