Long-time rightwing jarhead friend of mine admits he's gone anti-Shrub

[Rabrrrrrr]

Last night he said that he is sad that he voted for Fuckstick. We've been friends since high school, and I have always been the liberal and he's been the flag-waving rightwing republican reagan/bush/shrub-loving former marine who was not at all into nuance or ethical debate but saw the world very black and white, and we've basically not talked politics at all, because we've always known we disagreed on things. He's also not very, um, worldly, and has a very provincial outlook and upbringing.

I talked with him last night, and while he isn't ready to go Democrat, he did say he wishes he hadn't voted for Fuckstick, and that he thinks he's ruining the country. He lives in Wisconsin, and he also admitted that he actually likes Feingold. That totally floored me! Him, liking a Jew Democrat! But he appreciates that Feingold actually cares about the American people and about our country, unlike most people in government.

By God, I didn't think this guy would ever see the light or ever loosen the ties on his blinders.

YAY!

[mdmc]

1. fun to see it happen

[Ikonoklast]

2. One at a time, one at a time

It is starting to sink in that Commander Bunnypants is a failure.

Getting older and worrying about health care and Social Security will wake a lot of these people up. Bush is starting to scare the crap out of them.

[Elidor]

3. It's hard to imagine you attending high school

Unfinished, immature. I've come to assume that Rabrrrrrr has always been Rabrrrrrr, complete and fully formed, much like Lovecraft's Great Old Ones. It's jolting to think that Rabrrrrrr might once have been merely proto-Rabrrrrrr.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. While I *was* created ex nihilo, I, too, like you earth people,

had to go through my own growth period. It was a necessity that I suffer and experience, that I could therefore understand and know.

[SOteric]

5. It's a potential spark of light at the end of a long dark tunnel.

I hear and read more and more of this. I'm not sure what impact, if any, it will have on upcoming elections, but it's very nice to read about it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I think he's finally realized that it's not just people he doesn't like

who are getting screwed by the Republicans, but that they've been screwed about all they can be screwed, so now he's getting screwed, too.

Now it's personal. And that, I think, is what is bringing so many to the see the light - the shitty policies are finally affecting masses of white people.