Anyone who has ventured into the Politics thread knows that I am one of the idiot right wing types. Much like Eric Cartmen, I absolutely hate hippies. But, with that said, I must confess there is a little hippy that lives inside me... okay, okay, not so much your traditional 60s hippy, but one of those college professor "intellectual", high horse, science-is-the-answer-to-all-things, only-retards-vote-republican-or-believe-in-God, sort of hippies. The type that listens to John Lennon's song "Imagine" and is constantly blow away by what an amazing thinker ol' John was. I'd say this inner hippy of mine controls somewhere around 5 - 10% of my brian, leaving the other 90 - 95% in the control of the gun loving, war-mongering, Bush sucking, Republican voting, black hating, confederate flag bearing, poor hating, abortionist condemning, destined to be rich SOB, animal abusing, meat eating, talk radio listening, gas wasting, intollerant, biggoted religious fanatic, right-winger. (Okay, just for the record, I was kidding about everyone of those except for the gun loving, gas wasting, and occasional talk radio listening).
So yeah, this inner hippy controls 5 - 10% of my brian. A part of me that wants to believe God does not exist, science has the answer to everything, that believes violence and war are never necessary under any circumstances, that we should not have to be held responsible for our mistakes, that the government should be responsible for handling any part of our lives we do not feel fit to handle ourselves, that medicen should be socialized, that socialism in general is kick ass. This is the part of me who has spent so many years living in and traveling around Europe, who wants to be a snappy dresser and forever throw tennis shoes and blue jeans out of the closet. This part of me is also overly concerned for the enviroment and sheds tears nightly for the sake of the polar bears misfortune on account of destructiveness of mankind. (Okay, I realize I am being pretty hyperbolic here, forgive me for that).
That 5 - 10% extremist liberal living inside of me desperately wants something truely intelligent to grab onto, wants to really come up with some good arguments to confound the other 90-90% of my brian as well as my rightist extremist friends and aquantances, but it just can't find them. Just can't. The best it finds is Bush bashing, America hating, and CNN. And those things just don't cut it.
So, where can I find some really solid stuff to turn me into a liberal? Seriously, please turn me into a liberal (you know you want to), help my little hippy to become a big full fledged hippy (just not of the 60s variety please). I have wanted for years to be an athiest, but have seen too much science cannot explain. So, please turn me into an athiest, seems like a lot simpler life to me.
Whoa, anybody else want of puff of this shit I have been smoking? (just kidding).