Another strange but predictable encounter at work

[SHRED]

Being a public service worker it gets interesting at times when some of my RW co-workers let their politics spill over.
Yesterday one of them went on about some issue and then said to me "we will make a Libertarian out of you yet".

I replied with a question: "Why would I want to be a Libertarian considering I work for the government?".

He got quiet and walked away. As he was walking away I suggested that he should go work in the private sector.

I could tell that pissed him off and he ignored me the rest of the day.

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[Paulie]

1. Awesome!

[irisblue]

2. libertarian...

ugh. Isn't the appropriate response Fuck Rand Paul?

[dawg]

3. Does it hurt for them to be that stupid?

Do they constantly feel a dull ache in their brains? How could they not?

[RC]

4. How can they feel that dull ache, when their brains are numb to reality?

[SHRED]

6. voting for conservatives is one kind of crazy...

...but supporting that ideology while deriving your livelihood from the public sector takes batshit koo koo to a whole other level.

[47of74]

15. They probably drink cheap beer...

...to make aforementioned dull ache go away.

[LibDemAlways]

5. "Libertarians" who accept a government paycheck, including

Rand Paul, are laughable. Excellent response to your co-worker, who is a hypocritical dumbass.

[NBachers]

7. Even THEY know it's poison to identify as Republican, so they pretend they're "Libertarians" now

[zeemike]

9. That's it.

Bush made that nessesary...
but in the end all those libertarians will vote GOP every time.

[BrotherIvan]

17. +1

And the rest will come here and berate liberals because ponies.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

8. I think there should be a litmus test to work for a government agency...

Why should those idiotically... err, ideologically opposed to government be allowed to work in a job they don't think should exist?

[mikeytherat]

10. Nuttiest right-wingers in our neighborhood work for the State Dept. of Transportation

mikey_the_rat

[UnrepentantLiberal]

11. I said something like that to a loud mouth right wing nut at work.

I asked him if he felt like a hypocrite working at a union company and about to receive a union pension.

[ellisonz]

12. BAHAHAHAAHA

- From one public employee to another

[avebury]

13. There are state workers in Oklahoma that

complain about the government all the time. I shake my head because they just don't see that their attitude is totally against their personal self interest.

[Cleita]

14. Yes, my husband's nurse at the dialysis center was a pick yourself up by your

bootstraps Republican, yet she wouldn't have had a job if Medicare hadn't supported 95% of the center and her husband was a fireman, a government job. They get so pissed off when you point that out to them.

[SHRED]

18. I have seen...

...firefighter, military, and Tea Party stickers all on the same truck. Talk about messed up...wow.

[sammytko]

20. and college student

I told one guy in class that he should leave our state funded school.

[Zoeisright]

16. Hope his head exploded.

Libertarians can't handle logic.

[Populist_Prole]

19. I deal all the time with idiot coworkers that cherry pick ideologies

I mean they're utterly ignorant of civics and even the policies of the various political sects. I mean, so unread, and so whatever "knowledge" they possess was gained just peripherally by a few minutes of talking heads on CNN or Faux news. They behave like ignorant angry drunks when countered; To them, the republican party is the god/guns/values/USA! USA! USA! party. They quite literally are unaware -I mean it - that the GOP's main platform is redistribution of wealth upwards. Oh they think "pro-business" is good in the broadest most flowery "bootstrappy" sense; but think all the loss of manufacturing is all the unions and democratic party's fault.

Discussing with them is like trying to explain the workings of a clock is to someone who has no concept of what time is.

It's so demoralizing to see how many people who are like this - And they VOTE.