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Suasoria · Chanel

RE: Republicans in Hollywood feel bullied

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

D, I can sympathize with what you're saying--I'm 100% "East Coast Liberal Elite Fake American Except For When 9/11 Gets Brought Up Again, In Which Case We All Love New York", and living in NYC so is everyone I know, except my boyfriend--and my friends are SHOCKED when they find out that he's a Republican. As though it's some kind of dirty secret. One of my friends was even like, "ugh, I could never date a Republican." So yes, there are narrow-minded Democrats FOR SURE. But I don't think it's about Democrats or Republicans being narrow-minded, it's about human beings being (unfortunately) pretty narrow-minded, or at least tribe-minded, as a species. And I think you're also a victim of the past eight years; I bet those people you feel would attack you would not have been so psychotic about it before being subjected to eight years of an extremely right-wing Republican agenda. It gets harder to remember that there are moderate Republicans when all you ever hear from are people like Bush and Rove and the Christian ultra-right.

Hermes

sephorablue wrote:

D, I can sympathize with what you're saying--I'm 100% "East Coast Liberal Elite Fake American Except For When 9/11 Gets Brought Up Again, In Which Case We All Love New York", and living in NYC so is everyone I know, except my boyfriend--and my friends are SHOCKED when they find out that he's a Republican. As though it's some kind of dirty secret. One of my friends was even like, "ugh, I could never date a Republican." So yes, there are narrow-minded Democrats FOR SURE. But I don't think it's about Democrats or Republicans being narrow-minded, it's about human beings being (unfortunately) pretty narrow-minded, or at least tribe-minded, as a species. And I think you're also a victim of the past eight years; I bet those people you feel would attack you would not have been so psychotic about it before being subjected to eight years of an extremely right-wing Republican agenda. It gets harder to remember that there are moderate Republicans when all you ever hear from are people like Bush and Rove and the Christian ultra-right.

I agree 100%. Well said.

Hermes

fairlight wrote:

I think it is especially hard being a Republican female as this is how I think fashion magazines see me:

OMG - that's me!! I'm the uni-brow chick 2nd in from the left

Elle · Hermes

sephorablue wrote:

D, I can sympathize with what you're saying--I'm 100% "East Coast Liberal Elite Fake American Except For When 9/11 Gets Brought Up Again, In Which Case We All Love New York", and living in NYC so is everyone I know, except my boyfriend--and my friends are SHOCKED when they find out that he's a Republican. As though it's some kind of dirty secret. One of my friends was even like, "ugh, I could never date a Republican." So yes, there are narrow-minded Democrats FOR SURE. But I don't think it's about Democrats or Republicans being narrow-minded, it's about human beings being (unfortunately) pretty narrow-minded, or at least tribe-minded, as a species. And I think you're also a victim of the past eight years; I bet those people you feel would attack you would not have been so psychotic about it before being subjected to eight years of an extremely right-wing Republican agenda. It gets harder to remember that there are moderate Republicans when all you ever hear from are people like Bush and Rove and the Christian ultra-right.

I wonder if this is what gives the bullies a feeling of entitlement to bully not just the administration but Republicans in general. Maybe the impression they've gotten from the media is that even Republicans are disgusted with Republicans and their comments would be (less) ill-received? That wouldn't be too far a stretch, considering the sorts of stories they run on the administration ....

We had a conversation about Republicans and Democrats last election, maybe? Someone posted the original statment of what the Republican party stood for, and goshdarnit it was moderate compared to what we see from the leaders of the party today. I wonder if that post is still around ...

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

Yeah. I know my boyfriend for one is feeling a little at sea in this election; he liked McCain, in part because of his history of being fairly moderate. But now that Palin is on the ticket precisely to help bring in that moral-values aspect that has come to dominate so much of the party's ideology in the last few years, and which he is really uncomfortable with, he can't bring himself to vote for them.