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The rightwing-in-laws descended for thanksgiving and I swear I did not start one of the fights. On the other hand I refused to shut up.
We could have retreated to the neutral corner of the widescreen tv and mindless football, but no we just had to sit around the table and my brother in law could not stop bringing up one rightwing screed after another.
The list.
Global Warming: not happening, big scam that it seems the evil AlGore is foisting on us poor global corporations for unknown motives that have to do with socialism. The fact that societies, governments, corporations etc. that reduce their carbon footprint by increasing their efficiency and utilizing renewable energy sources benefit with reduced costs and increased profitability should be ignored because it is inconvenient.
Hate Crime Laws: criminalize free speech. Yes of course lots of crimes, for example murder, have motive and context used to categorize crime and punishment, for example torturing your victims before you kill them generally qualifies you for the death penalty in states with the death penalty, but you know, if hate is used this way to categorize a crime then people go to jail for calling somebody a faggot. Or something like that. The logic escapes me and requires the proponent to continuously avoid the actual nature of hate crime laws and discuss instead hypothetical examples of people being put in jail for saying racist idiocy.
Guns: everyone everywhere should be carrying them. The 2nd amendment is about just that. and that first clause should be ignored, plus we need pistols in our pockets in case we have to overthrow the government, but keep ignoring that first clause.
Gays: no of course opposition to hate crime laws has nothing to do with homophobia but them gays shouldn't get married because we are a christian nation (rightwing-brother-in-law is devout practicing jew, go figure) and marriage is religious only even though you have to get a license from the state and no Loving v Virginia doesn't apply because that ain't the same as them gays and god is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence thus proving that we are a christian nation even though that document has no legal standing and the one that does and is the foundational document of our republic never mentions god and only mentions religion to forbid its institutionalization with the state.
Health care: well of course what we need is everyone on their own buying their own health care. No idea how people without enough money to buy insurance will get any, no idea how people with chronic diseases will get insurance, no idea how individual purchasers are going to get anything but screwed, but quite sure that despite all the data to the contrary, that universal government run system will result in higher costs and worse care. Canadians hate their health care system, which is why they all come here for breast implants, but there is no political opposition to their health care system in Canada, even within the rightwing parties, because crickets.
Iraq War a tremendous success but we can never leave and they voted with red fingers (purple but who cares) and peace and love and they attacked us and they had evil weapons etc. Nobody lied about anything.
Afghanistan War not so good because Obama has dithered for almost a year now but the prior six years of dithering shouldn't count.
We have been kept safe from terrorist attacks so WOT is doing its job.
So we didn't get to birf certificates or Fasci-commu-bamaism, but it was close.
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