"I hope you're happy now!"

[The Backlash Cometh]

Anyone else getting strange comments from people who have known about your political views and are now realizing that you were right all along?

[Speck Tater]

1. Mostly I'm hearing silence, and a reluctance

to discuss politics at all.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Sorta

I've gotten snide comments from ultraconservatives who think I'm thrilled that things are going so awful in this country because I predicted they would under Bush. I'm not thrilled in any way. I'm pissed off is what I am, and I will continue to be pissed off til we rid ourselves of the problem.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Why would they think we're thrilled?

But I'm not angry right now, because I'm crying in my soup. All I can think about is all the hard work we're going to have to do to get this country back on its feet. And I'm thinking about all those right-wing charlatans that got us where we are today and wonder how much harder they're going to make it for us because they'll never admit they were wrong.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. Because they think we're as greedy and powerthirsty as they are

They think all we care about is being in power, simply because that's the way they've always viewed it themselves. They don't understand we really do care about the way our country is run.

[johnnie]

3. Not me

I am just getting ignored politically. No one I know seems to want to admit I am ever right. Although... I stopped discussing a lot of this a while ago with the people who I knew were on the other side of the fence. They are still waiting for bin Laden to be captured like George promised.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. You were right!!

There, are you happier now? :evilgrin:

[johnnie]

13. Nawwwwwwww

I am a bit more disgusted than happy. It seems like everyone has buried their heads these days. The only thing I am happy about is the fact that this administration will soon be gone and hopefully in prison.

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[The Backlash Cometh]

8. I stopped talking to a few of them sometime ago, after our discussions

became heated. Then, the mainstream news started favoring my point of view and I knew that they had to know I was right. I thought for sure they would have said something by now. But I prefer silence to, "I hope you're happy now." How creepy is that?

[PittPoliSci]

6. i just like to say "told you so"

over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

[LastKnight]

9. yea, that kinda thing...

they all think i go home and party every night cause the nation is in trouble, which isnt true. i go home and party every night cause i TOLD them so, and i was RIGHT and they dont know SHIT. and im going to rub thier faces in it every day i can.

i am in no way happy about the state of the nation, im just happy that i was right and they were wrong. and its really not a 'go home and party every night' kinda happy.

but im careful too, as to not make too outrageous predicitons so they cant do it to me later.

-LK

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Maybe the difference is...

that they have more contact with people that believe as they do, while many of us have had to resort to the internet to reach out to people of similar views?

I was once involved in a community matter where I had to rub elbows with Libertarians and Republicans. After a while, they forgot I was there and they started talking without reserve. Their conversation was definitely racist and anti-Liberal Democrat. They made very unflattering jokes and even though their punchlines were scientifically faulty, I couldn't help thinking, "Hey, this is how these people bond." Now I'm saying, "Hey, they must be angry at me because the joke's on them."

[LastKnight]

14. i live in a state thats 70% rep...

ive expierenced the exact same thing.

and to think of it, DU bonds the same way, with all the bush jokes, the captions, ect. we are no different, the subject of our jokes are just different. i guess i just have a higher tollerance to it cause im always around it.

-LK

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. What about reserve?

I freely make statements on the net, which I would never, never repeat in "real life." Am I being too politically well-mannered?

[LastKnight]

16. i am a bit more reserved in real life too

online though i know that there isnt a threat from some idiot who is afraid of me being right. so im not likley to get beaten for anything i say online.

some idiot in a giant suv tried to tbone me cause i had a kerry sticker on my car, it was the first time i drove with it on... i wound up removing it later that night, fearing for my life. but thats a whole story in itself. you can see why im a bit more reserved in the real world.

-LK

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Exactly. I haven't expressed my views freely because of the

fear of retaliation. I'm very selective with those I debate with. There's really only eight non-relatives who I have exchanged views with freely in the last four years. So, if most lefties are like you and me, why do righties get the feeling that we're smearing their faces in it?

Maybe it just goes back to the fact that they'll never admit they're wrong.

[sangh0]

11. My homophobic friends went out of their way to note

that Bush* was using the gay marriage issue for political purposes.

[TrogL]

12. "don't start" "shut up" "wipe that grin off your face"

-various obscenities

[displacedtexan]

18. People laughed in my face last summer...

when I signed on with the Kerry campaign in DC HQ.

They're not laughing now.