Last night, I was having sushi happy hour over at Uni on P Street. As I quietly awaited the arrival of my friend, diligently working on a proposal I have due today, two people came in, one with a cell phone stuck to her head. Since I was the only one in the place at the time, there was no way to avoid their conversations over the course of the dinner. I should have known something was up when I heard the woman trying to give directions to a third person who was supposed to meet them, and the third person was having quite a difficult time finding the place. I guess following numbered roads is tough.
Anyway, while the guy and the girl were waiting for this third person, they began to discuss how amazing it is that the DC Metro is so easy to use. Their conversation soon turned to how DC is such a "classy" city (obviously they don't venture too far from Dupont Circle.) Next came a discussion about free trade agreements, so I knew which direction they were heading. The guy said something about how the politicians make free trade agreements sound bad, prompting the girl to ask his party affiliation in a hushed voice. (Not hushed enough.) Suddenly, she's like, "Oh my god! Like, so am I! It's so nice to meet another Republican, because, you know, everyone our age is a Democrat!" The free trade discussion soon became about how Democrats ignore economics (as opposed to gops, who ONLY think about economics) and then turned to Democrat bashing. She then proceeded to talk about some party she went to where some girl stopped talking to her when she found out she was gop and complained that all Democrats do that (did she ever think maybe it was simply that she is ANNOYING?) Then, the highlight of the night came. The guy said "Speaking of Democrats, I heard the stupidest thing I've ever heard today."
The story was about a guy who wanted to start an online ministry. The guy was talking to this minister about his ideas for the website and then turned to questions of faith. Of course, the issue of abortion came up, as it seems to be at the tip of ever gop's tongue. The minister said he was pro-choice, believing it is a woman's right to choose what to do with her body. He then proceeded to say that he was morally against abortion, however, blowing the sushi eater's mind. The guy couldn't grasp the idea that one could be pro-choice and anti-abortion. This leads me to the only logical conclusion about this guy's line of thinking: he must honestly think that pro-choice people WANT abortion to happen, like abortion is a good thing. Now, you have to be a complete idiot, or I guess a gop (if there is even a difference these days,) to believe there are people out there who are pro-abortion. What these people do not understand is the difference between free will and suffering the moral consequences verses making everything you don't like a crime. The concept of free will is too abstract for many of the gop sheeple, which is evident in such things as "Justice Sunday," Samuel Alito, FCC, RIAA, gay marriage constitutional amendments, anti-flag burning amendments, and the list goes on.
Free will is closely associated with the concept of moral responsibility. By legislating away a right to choose, you are also throwing moral responsibility out the window. Oddly enough, the gops claim to be the party of morality and personal responsibility, yet they want to take that morality away every time someone looks at them wrongly.
The night was capped by the entrance of the third party - a woman from Bolivia. Since the other two were all involved in partisan politics, they decided to ask her what her party affiliation was. To my amusement, she said, "I'm a Marxist/Socialist." However, proving that she was as idiotic as the other two, she added, "But if I were an American citizen, I'd be a Republican." Or maybe she did know what she was talking about...
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