What a "wingnut" friend recently told me

[JitterbugPerfume]

I am afraid, M--- . My life is upside down and I am afraid of what can happen.


She was honest with me because I am always straight with her.I don't remember when I didn't know her and I am 68.


Fear is a dangerous and debilitating thing. I do not despise her , but I despise what she believes in. I pity her.

[KharmaTrain]

1. I'd Put The "Friend" in Quotations...

A freeper is always a freeper...but I get the feeling she isn't one, just confused and misinformed.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. She is misinformed

but she believes what she believes because she has always believed it!

[otohara]

2. What's So Wingnutty

about what she said?

Lots of lives are upside down these days - worries about job loss, home loss, health care loss.

More info about her wingnutiness is needed

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. she likes Sara Palin

is that wingnutty enough?

[YOY]

3. Frank Herbert had it best in his original "Dune": "Fear is the mindkiller"

It truly does cloud the judgment of the normally rational. There are those who falsely sow fear on political levels and will always get away with it despite it fitting the true definition of the word "terrorism."

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. Dune is one of my favorite books

but I do not think it is among hers.

She is a fundy christain, and that just feeds the fear.

[YOY]

17. Fundementalism and it's world of absolutes cannot help her at all.

Very sad...

[Lex]

4. some people simply thrive off the energy of fear

they gravitate to it, making up unbelievable scenarios and then totally believing them

or so it seems to me

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. fundy churches feed the fear

[Lex]

16. it's easy to instill fear in the uninformed or those unwilling to inform themselves

and Fox Noise and the fundy religions feed off that

[polysciguy420]

5. you gotta' realize one thing though

Jitterbug. Things like this are always two-fold. What's good for "us" liberals, sucks for them (conservatives). They can be afraid all they want, change is inevitable regardless. Acceptance and adaptation would be a better doctrine to follow than fear, but that's just my opinion. Let em feel however they wanna' feel, while we sit back and enjoy whats going on in our country as we can respect President Obama for who he really is.

[YOY]

7. Actually what's good for us is usually good for them too.

The rank and file lower and middle classes generally benefit. They just suffer from a severe bout of "single issue voting" and "voting against one's own self interest."

Now the top 3% in the income bracket Republicans? Not so much.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. she is definately not the top 3%

but she is really scared about her money. It just doesn't seem to register with these people that their taxes wont increase

[YOY]

12. I doubt she really understands what make her so afraid.

And that her fears are quite far from being realistic let alone being realized.

Very sad.

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. resisting change

is unfortunately something we over 60s have to fight . I have to resist being "set in my ways" constantly

[RandomKoolzip]

6. What's she afraid of now that Obama's in office?

What could she be afraid of NOW that wasn't something to be (legitimately) afraid of while Bush was in office? The stimulus package (is THAt what the cons were protesting? Nobody really knows) costs way less than any of Bush's war adventures, and those were legitimate threats to our safety and security. She's not getting her taxes raised (unless she's filthy rich, and even then, it's negligible), and her standard of living, if it changes, will change because of things Bush did, not obama. Did conservatives think everything was just fuckin' hunky dory for the last eight years? It must be the "black president" thing.

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. SOCIALISM

which in her (their) mind is equal to Communism

[RandomKoolzip]

18. Is she a multi-billionaire CEO? No? Then she has nothing to be afraid of from socialism..

...which is a total non-issue, since Obama is NOWHERE NEAR a real socialist. (I WISH he was a socialist!)Socialism is neither a threat nor a possibility.

Why are people in this country so afraid of the "s" word? I just don't get it. I mean, predatory capitalism has been a much more destructive force in the last thirty years, whereas many European countries who employ economic socialism are thriving and happy. Unregulated capitalism got her into whatever mess she imagines she's in, not socialism.

[get the red out]

20. No unbiased education in word meanings

People have no idea what terms like "communism" or "socialism" mean by definition. They have been used by the right to conjure up emotionality. The right can call Obama a fascist and a communist in the same paragraph, they might as well just use the generic term "boogy-man", with them it has just about as much actual meaning.

[JitterbugPerfume]

21. she really has no idea

what socialism really is, and has no interest in finding out. It has been the boogey man since the cold war , and that is what my generation remembers. It was interesting that most of the protesters yesterday were old people . That indicates to me that they are afraid more than anything.

[get the red out]

19. People who refuse to seek information can't be helped

out of their fear. They will not look for unbiased information because they are told that they must only listen to Fox News or Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.... And they will not let go of the belief that they MUST listen to their preachers, who tell them that the world as they know it is over because of Obama. People that will not even open their mind enough to seek other opinions are living in a false world of fear, they cannot be helped unless they are willing to leave the self-constructed prison of dogma surrounding them and peek out into the real world. Anything you try to say will be dismissed with a reciting of pure wrote propaganda, and you will be told you are just a stupid liberal.

Been there, done that.

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. my fundy friends

think my liberalism is "cute" and I couldn't possibly really mean it! 'Oh, you have always been a rebel" is what I hear a lot! I just smile and change the subject . I have known these people my whole life and it is to late to change now.

[get the red out]

25. No, can't change them

I decided my marriage was more important to me than trying to keep educating my husband on the error of his political ways. I love the man, and when we don't talk politics we are great together. Luckily he is more of a libertarian type Republican who just doesn't want to pay taxes except for a big, giant military budget that pays for cool killing machines (it's like a fifty-something version of playing with GI Joe via Fox News). If he was a Fundy Christian in any way we would have never even had a second date back in my non-political days when we met (let him know up front that religion is NOT for me).

Love people first. But sometimes views can't be changed. Be the liberal you wish they were and live your values without the fear. Actions may speak much louder than any words.

[Bucky]

22. Someone is manipulating her. They *want* her to be afraid.

She's compliant when she's afraid.

[JitterbugPerfume]

24. The Assemblies of God church

is her problem , but to her it is her salvation

[get the red out]

26. And the compliant will hand over their $$$$

for whatever promise of protection/salvation is offered.