Political sarcasm and woman problem

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

My girlfriend saw the first line in my sig, the one about Ashcroft rounding up Arabs and Democrats last night while I was asleep. I'm not sure if she understood the reference to 1984 and how Ashcroft's trying to scare the American people into submission and forcing us to turn on each other under the guise of fighting terrorism because I received an IM saying that it was ignorant and she was mad at me. She's a Democrat too, of course, which is why I don't think she understood. So I guess the question is how do I explain to her that it was political sarcasm?

[JVS]

1. How could she not get it?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. She's a sweetheart

But she's not the most political gal in the world.

[JVS]

3. This is really more an issue of understanding humor

than anything political

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. She might've been just kidding

She has the kind of humor where she'd just say she's mad at me for the hell of it. In person, it's fine. Over IM, it's hard to tell though.

[Racenut20]

5. Show her a video of the AG

And then pull up his political stands from the archives and let her read them.