I know rude people are on all sides of every issue, BUT

[Pacifist Patriot]

I still can't help but think the behavior I saw last night was a side effect of the Kool Aid.

I took my children to the peace rally / memorial vigil last night. A heavy weight older gentleman stopped his truck in traffic and got out to heckle the demonstrators...who were simply holding signs, waving to motorists or showing the peace sign.

The abusive language coming from that man was unbelievably foul and none if it had to do with support of the war. Instead he called us all faggots, liberal pussies...claimed to be f***ing our sisters that morning, etc. At one point my five year old looked up at me with wide eyes and said, "Mommy, that man just called me a fuckwad.....mommy, what's a fuckwad?"

Just lovely.

We've always had people drive by and say, "Go Bush!" or "Traitors!" but for the most part we've been greeted with simply horn honking and either a thumbs up or a thumbs down (with an alternate finger displayed from time to time.)

This man is headed for a heart attack carrying around that much hatred and anger. I had to try to explain to my children that you can't let people like that get to you. Responding will only encourage them and it's important to react with patience and civility instead of providing exactly what the person wants to provoke. My eight year old was itching to get into it with him. Oy!

I'm sorry my children had to be on the receiving end of that (2, 5 & 8 years old) but I suppose it's a lesson they'll be faced with sooner or later. I just wish it had been later.

How sad that people gathering in support of peace can make someone virtually apoplectic with rage.

[Pacifist Patriot]

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[Norquist Nemesis]

2. You can send a Thank You Note to

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Remember to thank them for being pinnacles of personal responsibility as it relates to influencing the public's political dialogue at large.

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[Pacifist Patriot]

7. You know. I think I might just do that.

Too bad I didn't have a video camera to tape the guy. That would have been wonderfully enlightening footage. Now I know what to bring next time.

[seabeyond]

3. my 3 texan boys (1 is hubby) bought me peace sign necklace

last week for my bday. they hunted and hunted. couldnt find the right one. bought me a little one. and a special silver chain. husband went to interent to buy me the one he really wanted to get me. we thought about giving my 12 year old niece the little one. then decided no, the christian school she goes to would probably have a problem with..... peace. if it were a dove ok. but not the peace sign

i am now wearing a big 60's one. will probably cause more confrontation, or bothering those that see, than any of my 8 bumperstickers

to oppose peace. wow

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. Isn't that bizarre?

My Southern Baptist relatives equate the peace sign with communism. :wow:

[seabeyond]

9. hippies, sluts degenerates. yup lol lol lol . i want to become one.

will so piss off my mother in law

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. Hmmm...

:hippie: I have been growing my hair out. I guess I'm only a tie dye away.

[seabeyond]

14. lol lol. i am old. i have been brading the top layer when damp

oh so funny,. i hae a couple tie dye. telling hubby was going to get a flowered head band. but really that little dude of yours, that is more my style than flowers.

[bryant69]

4. Well i think it is a sign of them realizing the weakness of their position

ON some level they know that their malarky isn't holding up. So they get angry at anybody who challanges it.

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[Pacifist Patriot]

6. True. When you haven't any valid points to make ...

what else is left if you feel passionate about something.

[Arugula Latte]

8. I think that's very true w/ fundies as well.

Deep down I think a lot of them know that the "six days, Adam & Eve, Noah 2 x 2" thing is not the literal truth, but they're so invested in it that their little world would crumble if they let go of it so they spend a LOT of effort propping it up, loudly proclaiming it, etc.

[Mr_Spock]

10. I guess the stress of being SO WRONG is getting to them...

I'll have to remember not to bring my kids to any rally's though. Things sound like they are getting nasty!

[highplainsdem]

11. There've been scientific studies of RWers' psychological problems --

the intolerance, insecurity and anger.

But years before I heard of any of those studies, I ran across this phenomenon again and again while I was moderating a political forum online. I noticed very quickly that the vast majority of RWers were incapable of debating any political issue rationally and would quickly resort to diatribes and name-calling and swearing. (Even RWers who could seem fairly normal and nice when other subjects were being discussed.) They were also the ones who'd send me private messages urging me to censor the liberals in the forum because their views were supposedly "dangerous." Never got a private message like that from a liberal asking me to censor the conservatives (and I didn't censor them, other than telling them to be polite). I got very, very tired of the RWers' childish rudeness.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. That jives with what I have witnessed on-line at a variety of

current event debate forums. I recently got booted from one for calling Republicans "poor babies." This after I'd been called insane, dangerous, an idiot.... Guess which way the moderators leaned?

[Marr]

13. I'll tell you exactly why that sort of behavior is so common on the right.

Look at the Republican platform. It's built around various types of hatred and fear. Hatred of fear of gays, of blacks, the poor, the weak both here and abroad, etc., etc.

If you recruit with hate, you get hateful people. It's really that simple. And that is why the modern Republican Party is the Party of Assholes.

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. Now that you mention it, that does make sense.