Reply #30: My whole extended family is mostly a collection of "pull myself up by the bootstraps" [View All]

[ShortnFiery]

born leaders. Almost 30 years ago - after we were first married, my husband said that I was somewhat of a pushy-broad control freak ... then he met the rest of my family and noted that everyone was either in-charge or attempting to take-over. After that, he has dubbed me, "The DIPLOMAT of our family." Hint: that's not saying much. :silly:

I don't know about religious right wingers, but my experience with secular right wingers is extensive. Believe it or not, when you interact one-on-one, there are many laudatory traits to someone who prides themselves at being "ruggedly individualistic." If you forego the screwed up stereotypes they spew ad nausea, their BEHAVIORS often do not match their rhetoric.

That is, I know some republicans who when it comes down with helping others (those less blessed), their behavior betrays their party affiliation. :shrug: