Reply #14: "they are successful because they did everything right."

[BlueIris]

raccoon, this typifies the most digusting element of the attitudes of all of the biggest assholes I know. Four out of five of them voted GUESS HOW in the last election. The fifth is my ex, who used to make comments like this all the time. Me: "Goddamnit, I canNOT believe I was denied a raise, AGAIN." Him: "Well, you must not be working hard enough." My ex votes Democrat because he thinks Republicans are stupid (and, of course, he is the smartest man ever). And he thinks elected Democrats will run a government that will continue to foot the bill for his entire education. And he wants women to maintain their right to choose because even though he looks down on women who have abortions, he wants the right to tell the women he impregnates they're not good enough to have his children so they should just have the "problems" "taken care of." Hypocrisy and evil are not unique to Republicans. But I'm honestly trying to remember the last time I met a voting Republican who wasn't consumed by those things. ::waits two minutes:: Nope, can't do it. Bottom line for me on their assholishness, though--it's one thing to privately endorse misogyny, bigotry and oppression (and obviously that's terrible thing to do however you do it) but it is quite another to vote for members of a party that have made these "values" inherent parts of its platform. Especially if you're one of those jerks who wanders around going, "well, I voted for Bush, but I don't personally hate gays." I always want to scream: "THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE VOTED FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO EXTERMINATE THEM, THEN!!!"