I just hung up on my repug mom - RANT

[momophile]

I was just talking with my Mom and telling her how my husband and I took our 6-month old to her first hockey game on Saturday and when a fight broke out on the ice, the woman behind me leaned forward and said, "She's kinda young to be seeing a fight like this, isn't she?" I asked my Mom if she thought the woman was serious (incidently, I think the woman was joking) and my Mom said, "she is probably just one of those bleeding-heart liberals." I said, "What does being a liberal have to do with hockey?" and she said, "you know how those liberals like sticking their noses in everyone else's business."

My Mom knows I'm a liberal (who takes no offense by the term 'bleeding heart') and politics is the big sore spot between us.

I then told my Mom that I think she had it backwards and that the NeoCons were the ones who can't keep their noses to themselves. She said she didn't agree and that it was the liberals. I told her I was pissed and was hanging up.

I don't normally snap at my Mom and we usually agree to disagree and not discuss it. But WTF? How did my Mom, the woman who raised me liberally, turn into the complete opposite of what she used to be? How does this happen and how do they become so blind?

Thanks for letting me rant.

[texas1928]

1. I know how you feel.

My parents are Democrats and raised me to be Liberal and equal to everyone. But lately they are getting more and more racial. I do not know why. But everytime I talk to them, my mother and father are running down races one after another. Is it old age? The period they were raised in? I do not know. I find it disturbing sometimes when they do it, because they taught me not to do that.

[grace0418]

4. I find a lot of my friends' parents doing that. I wonder if they

know it's wrong to judge and stereotype, so they avoided their bad impulses in order to raise their kids right. But once their child-rearing was done they said "fuck it." Either that getting older is making them scared, and fear breeds ignorance, willful or otherwise.

[momophile]

7. thankfully it doesn't seem to happen to everyone...

as they age.

[SmileyBoy]

2. It's all transferrence with them.

It was first discovered by Freud, then later edited upon by subsequent psychologists. Transferrence is when they blame others and say that others have the negative qualities that THEY actually have, but are too afraid to admit. That's why they transfer these emotions to other groups of people.

It's a huge trait of the neocons.

[realisticphish]

5. I'm dubious about that

Even setting aside the fact that I hate Freud, I'm not sure if transferrence exists, or if it does, that this is such a case. IMHO, I think it's just good ol' fashioned ignorance

[momophile]

6. oh yeah, don't I hear Ed Schultz...

talk about this a lot. Maybe not by that term, but by the idea. So is it contagious? Should I stay away from my Mom?

[Midlodemocrat]

3. I'm with your mom

that baby is too young to be watching hockey er, fights.




:hide:

[momophile]

8. she has to start watching it soon if she's gonna...

get a scholarship to college in it, doesn't she?:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

9. Good point, good point.

Maybe she could take up curling?