......during my commute. I like to listen to them while I'm driving, 'cause they're all so calm; their voices so soothing........like a bunch of kindergarden teachers.......so, they tend to keep ME calm by extension as I battle my way thru traffic. 
Anywho, they were talking to a group of ladies in New Hampshire that have been attending debate watch parties together. I think there were 6 of them in total, and they were pretty divided over which candidate they supported.
The one common thread, though, seemed to be that they were all -- with the exception of the 21 year pharmacy student who plans to vote for Huntsman -- anti-abortion & anti-same sex marriage.........or, as I've begun calling them........the anti-freedom brigade. A couple of them also tossed "no more entitlements" bullshit in there.
Not sure what it was -- maybe I was already cranky & just hadn't realized it yet -- but their discussion threw me into an absolute rage. I was screaming at my radio, gesturing wildly, and more than one curse word came flinging from my lips. I'm sure anyone who saw me probably thought I was an absolute lunatic.
I'm just so goddamn sick & tired of this "I got mine, fuck everybody else" attitude from the right, and from people who should KNOW better. Over half the women in that group were retired. Do they not get that a LARGE contingent of the GOP power circle consider social security & medicare to be "entitlements"? Do you ladies REALLY think that -- left to their own devices -- they will stop at welfare & food stamps for poor people when they start taking an ax to things in favor of rich people / corporations having to pay less taxes?
No, apparently, they don't. Their biggest concern seemed to be "values". This country is circling the drain, and they plan to choose who runs it based on whether he will force women to carry babies they don't want to have to term, and if he thinks that same sex unions are as icky as they do. Jeebus! I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it.
Oh, and there was also one of their "wo/man on the street" interviews with a teacher, who said -- quite proudly -- that she was voting for the candidate that is going to go to Washington and dismantle "BIG government". Sister-woman, do you not understand that one of the VERY first things they will put on the chopping block is education........which means YOUR job, benefits and retirement will be on the line? You are -- one would hope, anyway, since our children are entrusted to you -- an educated, intelligent person. How do you NOT get this???
Ugh! I was still P.O.'d when I got to work. I think I'll be listening to my iPod from now on.
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