Tell me no lies: Why do politics turn a perfectly amiable person into an insufferable putz?
It seems that politics (US) makes everyone so hostile. People never want to discuss the possibility of their view being wrong. They get mad, shout a few names, and claim the other person is bad.
I almost wish were a communist state or had a dictatorship that declared that it was illegal to talk about our government so people would just shut up.
Answers and Views:
Answer by ruth
It’s probably you.
You have actually met the Person who wants to discuss the possibility that he is wrong? What planet was he from? I don’t believe that for a minute.
“I almost wish were a communist state or had a dictatorship that declared that it was illegal to talk about our government so people would just shut up”
That is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
I haven’t experienced this in person. If you have, you’re hanging around the wrong people.Answer by Gnieb Namuh Eerf
pssst … attention is the key.
Don’t pay it where it’s unprofitable.
Answer by Mr AABecause ‘everyone’ is closed-minded and intolerantAnswer by The Master
Yeah, isn’t there a saying about not discussing politics or religion? Both subjects can lead to very heated debates.Answer by monkeybusiness
you said: “I almost wish (we) were a communist state or had a dictatorship that declared that it was illegal to talk about our government so people would just shut up” ……..this is why people become “insufferable putz”
I love my country, fought for her and damn near died for her, you offended more than our fighting men and women, you offended the very fiber that gave you the right to be in poor taste.Answer by Hnst1
Just make lite of it. Think of it as a verbal wrestling match. The more you do it, the more witty and word crafty you get. If you can`t stop them from sparring, join them. If this isn`t your cup of tea avoid it at all cost.Answer by Wade H
Thank God, finally a person on Yahoo Answers with his finger on the very pulse of America.
Please let go… your hurting us.
In 1980 I got a perfectly amiable job with the perfectly amiable Game Warden’s Service (the so called MDIFand W). Three days into this perfectly amiable job I met the present Governor, a future President, a future DA, several Congress people and all told about 20 “guests” at a drug distribution “party”. It was all very amiable; they even had a news camera.
Cause they wanted to brag, later, about how amiable they could be, to a drug interdiction task force in the Maine Game Warden’s Service.
And the public they’ve shown this amiable execution to have thought it a hoot, evidently.
But they amicably shot my brother 20 plus times. And they Amicably shot me 8 times, then 3 more times, then six or so hours later 1 time to the neck with a rifle (a nicely kept .226 (?) SKS with the hardwood stock), then when I didn’t amicably die but rather called the shootist a coward I was rewarded for my rudeness with another to the head.
After awhile, the politically correct crown displayed it had some dissent after all, as a little girl and a couple others got me into my little leaky aluminium boat (they shot our radio first thing) and we proceeded to “mess around with boats” ~ which, though ratty never spoke of this is less fun with 13 bullet holes in one, especially if to avoid being shot over and over again by the “largely non-violent” drug abusing crowd one needs to flood the boat and hide in the weeds for 6 hours while they search and search and search with drawn machine pistols and floodlights ~ in their government supplied body armor.
No, we weren’t amicable enough to get armor, I guess.
Luckily though, communists shoot druggies. But they are very good to honest policemen. So just as soon as “our” Ron Reagan Doper’s Revolution succeeds in driving us all down ~ amicably all the way, what with all the non-violence drugs inspire in people ~ I’ll succeed, by loosing, in gaining the right to be seen as amiable again.
Cause one man’s amiable is another man’s evidence of a psychotic break.
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