Egotistical Pauline

Do you ever feel like everyone is crazy except for yourself? Like everything they say is complete nonsense but due to the determination of their face and voice, they think they know for a FACT that what they are saying is TRUE.

I know this sounds incredibly egotistical, but there are certain people who think they are so right about everything--CONSERVATIVES--and it's difficult to maintain a friendship with them, let alone a civil one. I understand my pretty liberal ideas are offensive sometimes (yes, I refer to the Southern twang that Palin was trying to imitate), but I try to crank it down because some of my "friends" are Republicans, I try to be open-minded to other people's beliefs and opinions; however, I feel that I don't need to be so accommodating with everyone. There are a good number of people who absolutely believe in ONLY their beliefs and customs. The reason why I dislike Republicans so much is because, may not be true in its entity, they support big Oil companies, the war, only Christianity or Catholicism, and, most of the time, keeping out other ethnicities.

Conservatives and Republicans always give off the aura that they are superior; they are close minded to other people's cultures and other religions. This narrow-mindedness can be stretched out for all kinds of issues; therefore, obviously, they would vote only for what any Republican would vote for. If the issue was ridiculous, I might even vote Republican because I am capable of accepting different sides of the situation. If one cannot change or modify their opinions according to the issue at hand, then it isn't worth it to hear their Voice.

This also leads into why I have become to dislike religion. I am all for unity and what religion has to provide. Personally, I believe that religion is meant for good, it's supposed to provoke people to want to cherish other humans and act out of morals. But how can someone believe in treasuring another person's life AND want to go to war. Those are complete opposites. When I went to church, my pastor would always pray for Bush and the war. I'd rather pray for the people forced to go or brain-washed into going. I'd rather pray for the families losing someone they love. I'd rather pray for love, peace, and all those hippie ideals. In addition, I do not like how religion limits everyone and how most extreme religious people are outrageously hypocritical, I am not speaking of lying or lusting or drinking, I am speaking of breaking commandments.

Okay, okay. I'll stop beating around the bush; here is what produced this litany of undertoned and underdone slander. My conservative friend asked me when I was visiting her in her city since she doesn't live in NYC. I said jokingly, "I don't even really know where that is". I'm not a driver yet, so my sense of direction isn't particularly sharp. Then she gives me an incredible face and says, "You don't know where that is? I hate people who don't know their geography". Then she proceeds to ask me if she gave me a map, would I be able to spot where I am now--Bing. I said HONESTLY, I can't say because I'm sure I would be off. Here comes the grand finale, she asks, "If I gave you a map, would you be able to locate where Iraq is." Obviously, I know Iraq is in the Middle East, but I can't say I know exactly where. I am terrible with states and countries; I only know generally where everything is.

SO, she has the audacity to say, "Who gives you the right to vote if you don't even know where Iraq is".

WHHHATTTTTT? How does a geography conversation lead to questioning my right as an American citizen?

This is the breaking point for me because she has said the most atrocious and racist things about Obama. I let it go because I know she's all talk, but to actually say or even imply that because I do not know my geography that I don't have the right to vote was like she spat in the face. I don't need to know where everything exactly is to vote when I know the politics about it. I know I don't want war; I know that the war isn't helping our economy and is unnecessarily killing people, and so I think I have the right to vote.

There's some background to this too, like how she snapped at one of my friends because he said something about Republicans, which wasn't even that bad, because Obama was about to win or how she suggested a truce that we wouldn't rub whoever wins in each other's faces--even though this was 5-15 minutes before Obama was about to win--but I accepted it because I didn't want to be mean.

Then, a day after the insult, she comes by bubbly and acts like everything is okay. She won't apologize and, even so, if she did, I don't think I would accept it.

∴, I guess my lesson is that I can't really be friends with Republicans or Conservatives because they cannot show their civility and so, from now on, I won't show mine.