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Interesting things heard when canvassing in Indiana: (Original Post) bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 OP
front row seat KT2000 Oct 2018 #1
Well it's Indiana, for Pete's sake. Aristus Oct 2018 #2
My father is a native Californian. violetpastille Oct 2018 #3

KT2000

(20,577 posts)
1. front row seat
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 03:00 PM
Oct 2018

to what ails this nation. I found it was people in the lower income areas that gave up like this. Frustrating.

Aristus

(66,328 posts)
2. Well it's Indiana, for Pete's sake.
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 03:07 PM
Oct 2018

There's a reason why the rest of us fly over it on the way to somewhere else...

violetpastille

(1,483 posts)
3. My father is a native Californian.
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 03:19 PM
Oct 2018

He said, "I don't vote because it's an unfair system. My vote should have more weight because of my education and intelligence. I believe in a benevolent despotism."

Okay so we wait for the second coming of Marcus Aurelius?

He also told me I wasn't intelligent enough to vote, but if I did vote and voted for Obama I would live to regret it.
He really liked Sarah Palin. I mean, Really. Liked.

Assholes all around, is all I'm saying.

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