OMFG, I need to take a shower....

[spooky3]

15. ITA. If you are white and middle aged or older

Chances are good that you will often encounter people like this.

Luckily I live in a blue area so don’t have to deal with this often. I like to avoid unnecessary conflict. But I have a few dear friends who lean right and will bring up topics even though they know we disagree. I think there must be an evangelical glitch in right wing thinking too. For example, recently a couple said they couldn’t understand why a national increase in minimum wage was being sought. When I reminded them it hadn’t increased since 2009, they claimed there are still places you can live on that; I said multiply it times 2000 hours average worked per year full time. Even the proposed $15 per hour would yield only $30000 per year, and you can’t live on that even in (my cheap midwestern hometown). Their response: “well, there are cheaper places to live than that…”