Reply #87: Big hugs, Dr_eldritch. I love your posts. [View All]

[Ladyhawk]

I am interested in your views as a true conservative whose party left him in the dust. You're still a registered Republican, right?

Truth to tell, that's sort of what happened to me, but I also moved to the left. I really hadn't been a "Republican" for many years when I finally officially changed affiliations. I also voted for the weed the first time around. Sigh. That's was stupid. I'm still angry at my own stupidity. I think this is part of the reason I feel angry with those who persist in their stupidity. I wonder why they can't see the obvious evil of this administration. I was politically asleep and even I caught on that shrub was up to no good with his planned invasion of Iraq. Two weeks after Powell's speech to the UN, I decided there were no WMDs based on evidence I gleaned from sources other than the corporate-controlled news media. I told others not to support this destructive war, but what right-wing fundy is going to listen to a liberal atheist? At that point, the only people I knew were fundies and one Ayn Rand Objectivist (my brother)--dogmatic right-wingers, all.

I'm glad you found your way out of the fundy sinkhole. And you're right. Fundies are arrogant, but in a passive-aggressive way.

Think how it must have been for those of us who grew up in a totally immersive fundamentalist environment. Think of how much harder it was to accept ourselves if we were gay, or started to suspect everything we had learned was a lie. Think of losing your entire world view and your friends in one fell swoop. When you reject the religion, the fundies only associate with you if they think they can win you back to the fold.