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A Conversation With A Rabid Right Winger

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Message Jon Faulkner

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -- Thomas Paine, US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809)

Anyone who has ever had a conservation similar to the following understands the hopelessness of getting through the steel reinforced, concrete wall, that is ignorance. Many conservatives wear their ignorance proudly on their sleeves, for all the world to see. It is utterly impossible to discuss the issues of the day in rational and logical terms with a person so ignorant he would deny reality itself to further his pointless argument. Following is a conversation with such a person.

"I only have a minute, David. Glenn Beck is coming on.

"You watch Glenn Beck? Why?

"I'll tell you why. He's the only one on television who tells the truth.

"Aw, Marie. Please tell me you're kidding.

"Listen, David. You can't understand Glenn. You've been brainwashed by the liberal media. You probably think Obama is a good president when anyone with an ounce of sense knows he's a communist.

"A communist? He may be a jerk, Marie. But a communist?

"And so aren't you, David. You're a communist too.

"I am? I may be a socialist. But I'm not a communist.

"They're the same things, David.

"They are? I don't think they're the same at all, Marie.

"Oh, yeah? Well, David the know it all. Do you happen to know that Obama is planning to murder everyone over 55?

"I didn't know that, Marie. Is that what Beck says?

"Yup. And Rush, Bill and Sean. If it weren't for them there would be no truth out there. Larry and I keep their books right here on the living room coffee table, and our friends feel the same way about them as we do. So you just run along and watch your liberal television shows and stay stupid.

"But, Marie. I don't own a television. Partly from fear that I might be channel surfing into Beck or Limbaugh bloviating. I ˜d throw up on my new recliner.

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Jon Faulkner is a licensed Master Mariner. He has long considered the conservative republican mindset a form of mental illness. He lives in northern Maine.
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