I'm At A Point Where I Feel Bad For My Repug Friends.....

[global1]

yes I have Repug friends.

Many of which send me those pass on e-mails that are RW drivel and lies. I used to respond to them providing them data and Snopes reviews to refute - but that didn't stop them. Now I just totally ignore whatever they send me and feel sorry for them.

These are smart - college educated people. A couple of them are CEO's of companies, accountants, businessmen - yet they continue to embarrass themselves by sending this crap around to everyone on their e-mail listing. One would think that they are smart enough to verify what they are sending out before they hit send - but they don't. Instead they pass on this crap and in my mind they make themselves looking totally silly. Really - I'm embarrassed for them and feel bad that they are totally oblivious to the fact the others - like myself - laugh at them and make fun of them because of their blindedness to the facts.

I wonder if somehow we could run some sort of embarrassment campaign and knock some sense into these people. Make them feel uncomfortable that others perceive them as less of a person because they are so biased that they lose all common sense and sense of reality.

They would be mortified if they realized their employees perceive them as less a person. They are sending these things on to their friends like me - and not all of their friends are like minded and as biased as they are.

[flamingdem]

1. They'll wake up a bit if there's a major landslide in November

Let's do all we can to make that happen

[flamingdem]

7. Ah so you're a right winger or libertarian come to visit us at DU?

Enjoy your short stay?

Unless I misunderstood you but "sheeple" is one of those wingnut words

[barbtries]

2. consider this.

are they spending even one split second on feeling bad for you? for poor people? for the middle class? for the uninsured?
i don't feel sorry for them at all. they're what's fucking up this country.

[Scuba]

6. Nailed it.

[Bluerthanblue]

9. probably not- but copying their behavior

only spreads their kind of thinking.

If you become what you oppose, they win. Doing that, imo- is what is fucking up this country.

[barbtries]

12. refusing to pity them

ain't being like them.

[Bluerthanblue]

14. to the degree that

it denies our common bonds it is.

They see us as somethin other than them. Somthing not worthy of thought or consideration. We are a lost cause that doesn't matter. As a progressive Dem, and a spiritual person, I see all human beings, even the most flawed and unpleasant among us as connected and worthy of if nothing else, my pity.

I know that probably isn't part of the Democratic platform, but it is an ingredient in almost all that we stand for imo.

Not meaning to attack or diss you. Just trying to explain my perspective and why.

[barbtries]

15. i respect that.

i'd much rather try to educate them if possible than expend energy feeling sorry for them. as someone noted in this thread, their ignorance is willful. furthermore it is harmful to us all.

[LonePirate]

3. I will never feel sorry for them. They are compliant in the destruction of this country.

[Booster]

13. Best answer yet.

[liberal N proud]

4. Never feel sorry for the willingly ignorant.

[thelordofhell]

8. The Only Way for Evil to Triumph, is for Good Men to Do Nothing

[Freddie]

10. No. The Repugs I know are all self-righteous

and 100% brainwashed by Fox News. Will feel sorry for them Nov. 7

[lunatica]

11. I don't feel sorry for them at all

These bosses and CEOs fire people without a second thought just to up the profits.