Really Dude? Shut the fuck up already.

There's this guy at the gym who doesn't understand social boundaries.  He is constantly following me around the gym and trying to talk to me.  Yesterday, he trapped me on the treadmill and I was held hostage for 30 minutes while he went on and on about how taxing the rich was wrong and how high schools should be closed down and kids should go to charter schools and that sports were worthless in education.  He's a Republican.  I'm not.  There is no way in this lifetime he is ever going to convert me to become a Republican.  After about ten minutes of his bullshit I seriously wanted to throttle him.

The kicker of the story is that he is 30 years old, lives with his parents and is unemployed.  He won't work because the jobs available to him are beneath him, so he collects some sort of unemployment and plays video games all day.  I asked him why he was a Republican since he wasn't rich and he said, "that one day he would be rich."  I told him I seriously doubted it due to his lack of initiative.  He got flustered and insisted he would be.  I went on to say that his party doesn't want him to be rich and they are making it harder for the average person to rise up and be rich.  He just kept spouting off more propaganda.  Even stating that he won't have health care when he is older didn't phase him.  He has been brainwashed.

Here is a classic example of someone who votes against their own interests.  He sucks off the government teet and then wants to vote for someone that doesn't give a fuck whether he has health care let alone food and shelter.  Sorry, but the current Republicans care about one thing and one thing only and that is money.  I view that party the same way I do a pile of dog shit I step in when I'm walking in the yard.  It and they utterly repulse me. 

This is not to say I am pleased with the Democrats.  They need to grow some balls and stop trying to negotiate with the right.  Can certain programs be cleaned up and made more efficient?  Sure, but that doesn't mean scrapping the entire government so a few individuals can become super rich.

If this guy's political party "wins" then he will lose and so will 99% of Americans.  And the sad part is that a frail guy like this won't make it in the future the Republicans have planned for him.  His video game playing days will be gone and he will be cleaning their toilets.  Even then he will probably still believe that one day he will find a golden turd and he will become rich and they will laud him and call them one of their own.