Do you have rightwing friends?

[Gringo]

Poll question: Do you have rightwing friends?

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. No!

I have acquaintances (mainly through work) that are clearly Reaganites, conservatives, Repubs, or libertarians.

But, i avoid being anything beyond "work civil" with them. I couldn't be friends with someone with such a narrow and shallow mind.
The Professor

[commander bunnypants]

2. I even got a message from one last night

Apparently another Green friend called him. Told him BoB Dylan wont let the right winger back in any of his concerts cause of his views. We beat up on the Green friend. We have all been going to concerts for years together. Me and the wing nut have great times arguing and the green tries but well you know greens


DDQM

[LanternWaste]

3. Two of my closest friends are republican...

Of the six guys I pal around with (the same five from high school twenty years ago!), only myself and one other are liberals. Two others are hard-core neo-cons (although they use the Libertarian sobriquet so they don't look like ditto-heads, which they are) and the last two are completely apolitical and get that glazed look in their eyes whenver politics comes up.

[thom1102]

4. My brothers...

We are always getting into it!

[HEyHEY]

5. No just dumb ones

I know people that act sooo right wing, but as soon as you sneak a good liberal idea in the conversation without them knowing it. They start agreeing with you

[Japhy_Ryder]

6. Many right-wingers

are still decent people. Some of them even have well thought out reasons for what they believe. They are utterly wrong, of course, in that thinking, but not all conservatives are freepers that live in quiet, little, pissant, redneck, podunk, jerkwater, three corn, one horse, one hole, chicken butt, right wing, missing stuff, no mail, truck driving, old dragon, spacey, peabrain, horsewhipped, hungry, uncut, white trash, mountain towns.

[Nikia]

7. I guess it depends on what you mean by rightwing

My friends are fairly open minded people but some hold some opinions that might be considered rightwing. We talk more about the things that we agree upon than the things that we disagree upon. Both sets of my highly political grandparents have friends of the opposite political party. One set frequently argues with frineds about the issues. The other goes to great lengths to avoid talking about differing political opinion to the point of changing the topic if the other people bring it up.

[bif]

8. I have a few right-wing pals

but I usually don't get into it with them. Once in a while we have at it, but nothing's accomplished. I'm not friends of theirs because of politics. But most of my best friends are left of center Dems and we do discuss politics often.

[rock]

9. Yes I do. The most clear-cut attribute that they all share is

massive misinformation. They always start from conclusions that they want, and then produce specious (i.e. rubbish) arguments to get there. Always.

[amazona]

10. yes, sadly, one of my best friends is a RW extremist

Most of the time I keep a lid on it and just listen flabbergastedly to the outrageous and ridiculous theories and attempts to think represented by the RW, but occasionally I do have to say something. Sometimes he even starts to see the light...but after he has not been around for a few days and has been exposed to the pure Rush brainwashing again, he backslides into the far right dementia. It is obvious to me that the RW leadership exploits ignorance and the fact that, well, let's face it, these people aren't necessarily as bright as our people. I don't want to say stupid, exactly, but they have trouble with complex issues and with seeing multiple points of view. So when they are given a bitesize bit of nonsense that sounds logical, they can't see through the lies. For instance, my RW friend told me straight-faced that Saddam's son was putting people through a paper shredder. I'm, like, dude, have you ever once in your life seen or operated a paper shredder? Good luck shredding bodies with it. Sheesh.


some of them are kind in person but have no higher brain functions which can be infuriating

[mac56]

11. I have some friends and relatives that I love dearly -

that are polar opposite from me politically. We've reached sort of a detente about political issues, knowing that we'll never change each others' minds. Just the same, we all continue to "work for glancing blows" on each other, hoping to land one occasionally.

[Brucey]

12. Not any more.

The reich-wing has gone too far - bombing brown people, and not even feeling a bit of remorse - so, I refuse to associate with them. At work I steer clear of the warmongers and do not say anything to them. I would just have a temper tantrum if I got started. I still don't understand why Americans aren't screaming in the streets and pulling their hair out about the invasion and occupation of another country, killing thousands of innocent, helpless people, and all the lying and smiling and lack of proper decorum about something so horrific and appalling. Are we a country of ignorant psychopaths?

[izzie]

13. My whole family were GOP and I dropped off when Reagon ran.

I must say they were not like the group that we have now but I grew up in a house that FDR was pretty bad.

[xJlM]

14. Not one

And that's ok, because I don't need to fight. Someone here gave me the perfect line for them, "If you support the right in America, you must be a borderline psychotic, and you need to stay away from me!". Of course, you need to be ready to back this kind of talk up, so I prefer to just stay away from them.

[VermontDem2004]

15. Does my family count?

:shrug:

[ikojo]

16. I have a group that I go on breaks and lunch with, we call ourselves

the break posse. Well, one of our group is definitely a pug (her husband has contributed enough to Jim Talent's campaign to sit next to him at a luncheon). Another member of the break posse is leaning pug. She is marginally middle class. I don't give the solid pug any grief because she is as set in her political persuasion as am I. My other buddy though, I do try to steer in the proper and leftward direction. I tell her that the pugs don't care about working people and if she votes for them then she is voting against her class interests. It is difficult at best to get working-class Americans to view themselves as a distinct class (I believe with all my heart that the rich view themselves as a distinct class and fight for THEIR class interests that's for sure).

I think she supports the pugs because she is toying with fundamentalist Christianity and may see them as the more religious party or at least the one more welcoming of religious Christians. What news and info she gets is from talk radio or the headlines on MSN which is the Internet homepage at work.



:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[Brucey]

17. Tell her that Raygun and Bush are no Christians!

Particularly in their actions. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are much more religious and better Christians than the repugs. Hell, their candidate for governor of CA is the Termite-Eater! That's Christian??

[commander bunnypants]

19. Raygun. That is to funny

lol


DDQM

[HawkerHurricane]

18. Sure do

And I even tell you about them.

Sparks, who might convert for the right candidate...

Guns, who has converted because of the Idiot...

Fire, who never was truely right wing, but for the abortion issue, and has now converted because of every issue but abortions...

plus other, lesser friends...

Right wing people are not are enemies, right wing thinking is.

[scarlet_owl]

20. I'm lucky enough to work in a very liberal place.

Both of my parents are liberals, but my extended family aren't. Good thing they live 200 miles away.