who here hates elephants? (I vent, excuse me)

[stuntcat]

Excuse the shyt out of me for angry posting, I've learned to avoid the group because people fight with me for no effing reason, but I just want to check with you guys.. How many of you admit to holding a grudge against elephants because the Republicans used them for a mascot? In the lounge I posted a picture of me and a baby elephant statue, it was just a pic from the San Francisco zoo, I didn't even think of the utter horribleness that elephants obviously represent among my moral & brainy fellow Democrats :eyes: and maybe they were only trying to be funny but picking on wild animals is not the way.

Do any of you great folks hate elephants forever because of the Republicans? Admit it, speak up.

excuse me x( I'm over it now.

[flvegan]

1. I don't associate the elephant with republicans short of a cartoon symbol.

I don't associate coyotes with idiotic poor planning in their quest to eat roadrunners, either.

It's also pretty insulting to Hindus, considering Ganesha is one of their big kahunas of Gods, and as luck would have it, is an elephant.

[LeftyMom]

2. I'm going to let you in on a secret: many of the people on this site are stupid, assholes, or both.

It gets easier once you recognize that fact, because then you can point and laugh when they start chasing their tails again.

Can I tell you a good elephant story? Sad, but I learned something from it.

My grandmother was pretty much my favorite person in the world, and she and I were very close. When I was twelve, we found out she had cancer and was probably not going to make it. Neither one of us are demonstrative, but it was a really hard thing to cope with. One night I was at her house, and we watched a PBS special on elephants and their family groups. The end of it showed the way they mourn when one member of the family dies, the way they linger over the body right after death and how for years they keep coming back to the bones, touching them with their trunks. It was enormously healing for us to be reminded that death is just a part of life, and that everybody faces it. She died about two months later, on my birthday. I mourned, I moved on, but I let myself go back to that memory and linger on it when I need to. I learned that from those elephants, so I tend to think the world of them, as a species.

[stuntcat]

3. "recognizing the fact"..

I've been disappointed in people since I came to DU. I guess I was thinking everyone who's a Democrat is some wise and thoughtful peace-lover?? A lot of people are just fantastic here, but I get unreasonably mad at stupid people sometimes!
I respect elephants more than I do most humans and normally I have to hide feelings like that on the interwebs.. I'll whisper it over here in the animal room though.

That is the most beautiful story, you will never forget it. I'm glad you two saw that show together, maybe it was some lucky fate, a moment you can always treasure.

[Robeson]

4. Maybe this will help to pick your spirits up....

...its an elephant sanctuary here in my home state. They do some amazing work... http://www.elephants.com/