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In reply to the discussion: My Encounter With A Right Wingnut [View all]Mariana
(14,854 posts)21. My experiences with RW nuts in my family
is that they'll concede something like your volunteer did, and then the next day they'll be saying the very same shit they admitted was false. You watch, she'll go off with the birther nonsense again - maybe not with you because she knows it won't fly with you, but I bet she's still talking that bullshit in the future.
One of the weirdest things I've seen is that there are a lot of rank and file RWers who know this stuff is BS, but they spread it around anyway, pretending to believe it themselves, and hoping that whoever they're talking to is stupid enough to buy it. I wonder if your volunteer is in that category?
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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
#46