My experience with a teabagger roommate
This is a follow-up to an earlier post. For the last few years, I have been mostly uninterested in politics, because allowing myself to get invested in it always made my blood boil. But I have recently had an absolutely horrid experience with an ultra right-wing roommate, and it reaffirmed my desire to fight the GOTP because of the kind of people they attract.
Due to bizarre, unfortunate circumstances, I ended up living with this guy because I had no other options. He seems like a nice, passive guy on the surface, but allow yourself to be in a conversation with him for any length of time and he will start to talk your ear off about how the liberals are ruining everything. His views are extreme right-wing and by that I mean to the right of Hitler - the Duck Dynasty guys and Ted Nugent are role models, 2nd Amendment rights take precedence over public safety and the lives of children, the Republicans were right to shut down the government, Dick Cheney was a great leader, etc. He's in his early 20s and owns the house, which I respected him for at first, until he started talking about how much of a hard worker he is unlike liberals who are all lazy. Of course, he considers himself a Christian while loving guns more than life itself and considering all poor people to be lazy bums. And calling this guy a control freak would be like calling the sun lukewarm. If you don't wash dishes properly or leave them in the sink too long (aka more than 8 hours), he throws them away. If you don't take the trash out on time, he will deliberately shovel snow in front of your car. If he decides he doesn't need WiFi, no one gets to have it. Since it's his house and his rules, you have no privacy rights and none of your stuff is safe, if he doesn't like where it is, whether it's in the living room or your bathroom, he will move it, throw it out, etc. I'm not saying all conservatives are arrogant, selfish, power-tripping control freaks, but most arrogant, selfish, power-tripping control freaks are definitely conservatives. You definitely know people by their fruits. Oh, and he recently received a high-ranking position with the local GOP campaign for this year.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
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Sounds exactly like my insufferable father, with the exception of an intense dislike for modern pop-culture ( anything after, say, 1954 ) like Ted Nugent or Duck Dynasty.
I visit him for about a week, once a year or so. Having dinner, sitting in a parlor, riding in a car, he will ceaselessly try to browbeat and preach his politics to you and bait you into rebutting to cause a full-blown argument...where he feels his legendary pushiness gives him an edge. Hell, even if you try to "fog" the debate by not rebutting him, he'll get irritated that you're not an enthusiastic enough supporter of his view.
Trying to keep the conversation non political is very anxiety-ridden and fatiguing as my minds constantly working hard to monitor the conversation and choose my words just so.
What's funny is politics aside, when he's distracted by events or activities, he's a fascinating, stimulating father to have.
Even so, I can't "leave" in the sense that "you can choose your friends but not your family" but you can. Do it before you get an ulcer or some other stress-related disease.
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And well he should be. He just wanted to "go down swinging", and I'm glad you made the choice his by standing up to him. 
