Something I noticed about F9-11 audience--polite

[cybildisobedience]

We had to drive 50 minutes to get to a theater was showing F9-11 last night. We ordered our tickets online, so we got in. We saw many others turned away and told that all shows were sold out until Sunday night.
But the amazing thing was that just about everyone in the theater was polite - - readily stood up to let others by, smiled, shared, started up conversations.
Usually, when we go to these suburban megaplexes, the parking lot is filled with humvees taking up two spaces, and rude, pushy people.
Just last week, a Rush Limbaugh lookalike refused to move over one seat so that a family could sit together. He also left his cell phone on, talked during the movie to whoever called, and left his supersized "diet" coke and bucket of popcorn behind, too.
I went with a group of four, and we all commented about how it wasn't the typical movie crowd.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Maybe because freepers aren't showing up?

I've heard that they are 'afraid' of the 'wild-eyed liberals' so they aren't going to see it. Well, that makes for a polite crowd then.

[Longhorn]

6. I noticed it too!

I rarely go to movies in the theater any more because I always end up next to someone who talks all the way through or is otherwise disruptive. We waited more than an hour just to get in -- the showings apparently were backed up so our 9:30 show (sold out on all three screens for every show -- they were considering adding a midnight show. This was at the Austin AMC Barton Creek Square Mall) didn't even start until 10:30 -- but everyone waited politely.

[Cat Atomic]

2. That's because Republicans have a lock on the asshole vote.

It sounds too simplistic to be true, I know- but it is. Oh, I'm sure you can find liberal assholes if you look hard enough. But in general, when you meet an asshole, you can be pretty sure he votes Republican.

[wadestock]

5. So true....

Have you seen the general evolution over the years of how the "ass-holes" have risen to the top of the corporate ladder.

I'd like to see a treatise of why this is true and why it's happened.
Almost anyone I talk to at work or in other jobs will attest to the fact that this is true. I've seen it evolve over 30 years on the job. The nice guys that were true coaches and really motivated are hard to find anymore.

And fundamentally why the corporate machine and those in power are principally repukes.

[janx]

7. You're right! And most of them aren't very well educated, either.

One or two may have a prestigious degree, but if you get them talking, you find out that they're pretty ignorant! It's like Chimpy himself!

[eaprez]

3. Shiney Happy People.....

...happy to be validated at long last!

[2Design]

4. That is the same feeling I got with the March for Women's lives

in DC in April....

maybe we activists are the kind and gentle type like we want in the WH

[Marymarg]

8. When Clinton came to Fort Worth in 1996

I went downtown to see him. Huge crowd. We had to wait hours to go through metal detectors. Everyone cordial, friendly.

I am short (5 feet). So I was literally jumping up and down, trying to see the President. A very large man near me was watching and offered to lift me up. He seemed to want to be helpful, but still...I thanked him and declined. A little later I felt myselt lifted into the air so that I could clearly get a brief glimpse of the President. The (same) man said I'm sorry but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I just can't stand for you to miss it, also explaining that his wife (who wasn't there) was short. Anyway, it was a very sweet thing to do and I thanked him for it.

The entire time I was there was wonderful and I definitely felt I was among a crowd of potential best friends. Democrats are like that.:)