Why do republicans always turn down people being nice to them?

[dorktv]

I was at the library collecting signatures and this republican woman was also there. There is one tree to stand under and we had the spot but I wanted to share because she was going to get really hot out in the sun (this is Arizona after all). She told me no and also turned down the offer of fresh cool water. Sheesh what did she think we would do? Poisen the water and bite her when she came near?

[salinen]

1. What kind of poison

were you using?

[PragMantisT]

2. They know that no one likes them,

so all kindness is suspect.

[notimetoloose]

3. I understand

But you didn't say why you knew she was republican...why did you think that?

[Catherine Vincent]

5. You can just tell who is a republican and who isn't by their attitude.

That was a republican.

[dorktv]

9. I could tell by the fact she said she was a republican.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi notimetoloose!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RandomKoolzip]

4. Don't you know? They're all such rugged individualists.....

And they don't need no stinkin' handouts, whether it's from you or the poorly run, ineffcient, tax-loving government!!!

Either that, or they're all a bunch of assholes.

I'm going with the latter option on this one.

[poppabear36]

6. She has disdain for you

Your "do-goodism" is the essence itself of liberalism to a lot of these folks. The idea that you could think of someone's welfare other than your own makes you disdainful to them.

[HawkerHurricane]

7. People ascribe motives to others...

based on what thier motives would be.

She wouldn't be nice to you unless she was up to something, therefore she assumed that you were up to something because you were being nice to her.

[tom_paine]

16. Now THAT'S probably closest to the truth

Well done, Hawker. Of course your job requires you to be in close quarters of Totalitarian Bootlickers on a daily basis, so your understanding should be deeper.

[DBoon]

8. She feels uncomfortable and guilty

That someone else is willing to help her when she realizes that in fact she would never do the same.

On a deep subconcious level, they feel bad about being such selfish bastards and don't want to face it.

[dorktv]

10. I could see that.

[Finch]

11. Its the same with Democrats as well as Republicans

..every group as decent good people and jerks in it, I have many Friends who are republicans and i know many democrats who are jerks... it really cuts both ways it not to do with being either a DEM or a REP...

[tom_paine]

18. True, but sometimes...SOMETIMES the parties differentiate themselves

asa function of historical trending and opportunity.

What you say was true during the Days of the Old Republic. It's even still partially true.

But now that the Busheviks have embraced Totalitarianism and Nazi-style propaganda, which inevitably corrodes a person's own soul and corrupts their being, their corruption is to the Democrats' corruption as the Aircraft Carrier is to the Kayak.

Does this mean the Democrats are Morally Pure? Hell, no!

It means exactly what it says, that the Busheviks have a MUCH HIGHER level of corruption that, for the first time in my life, translatesd into a basic contempt for the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the American People (who are gradually morphing into Imperial Subjects before our eyes).

[Az]

12. Tolerance of evil

Liberal promote tolerance of evil. Conservatives promote rejection of evil. That is how they see the world. The liberal notion of trying to understand others and reserving judgement is poison to their thinking. This is why strong but stupid is favored over uncertain but intelligent.

To associate with you would be akin to acknowledging your position as credible. You represent evil and all that is wrong with the world. You are a taint. Your presense corrupts. You are to be shunned.

[dorktv]

14. Even if that means dying of heatstroke.

How silly and wasteful.

[tom_paine]

19. Yep. Just like the Nazis saw the Jews.

No surgarcoating it. The Busheviks are "kinder and genlter" Nazis. Nothing less, nothing more.

[tom_paine]

15. It would humanize you unacceptably if she took your help

How can she help the Nationalized Neighborhood Watch spy on you and Gulag you if she thinks about you as a fellow human being?

Of course, even if she accepted your help and her heart softened, she would only have to watch some of her Party-Loyal Sub-Media Pravda (Limba, O'Reichley, Insannity) and she would remmeber that, like the Jews in Germany in the 30s, you Liberals are inhuman RATS that would be better off locked away where you can't harm others or yourself...perhaps a nice Re-Education Camp in the Sonora Desert.

(which means YOU'LL have a short Prison Bus Ride, Mr. Lucky Ducky!)

Anyway, that's my take on it. The same essential reason a Nazi would refuse help from a Jew. And I'll bet there are MANY examples of such behavior, even a few documented.

[dorktv]

17. I suppose. When you are at war, you should remember your enemy

is a human but most dehumanize so that they will not feel too guilty.

[tom_paine]

20. Absolutely you are correct on both points

But what to do when you are facing Nazis, even if they are "kinder and gentler"?

Do you try to maintain "moral purity" or do you STOP THE NAZIS?!?