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In reply to the discussion: My Encounter With A Right Wingnut [View all]Mariana
(14,854 posts)18. I agree that it will get worse before it gets better.
And I disagree that time will prove anything to people like the one the OP encountered. Those people have no relationship whatsoever with reality. As in the OP's story, they utterly dismiss anything that contradicts their delusions. That isn't going to change, people like that are going to live out the rest of their lives that way.
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With a big smile on my face I look them in the eye and say very nicely: "You are adorable."
TeamPooka
Sep 2012
#15
Forgive them. They know not what they do. But: Let them spew & feed it back to them word for word.
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2012
#26
I always carry my little iPod with me when I am going to be in a waiting room....
Tikki
Sep 2012
#27
These people always think they can get away with spewing their RW filth in public
Raine
Sep 2012
#33
I had a conversation with one last night said Obama is a Muslim and a Communist.
RiffRandell
Sep 2012
#37
I think that over the years - in order to sustain the emotional high of right-wing ideology they
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2012
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