How do you negotiate with crazy people?

[andrewducker]

• 67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.
• 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim
• 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
• 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
• Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

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I mean, I know a lot of, say, Conservatives in the UK have beliefs I don't agree with.  But the vast majority of them, so far as I can tell, just have different experiences to me, and different opinions about how things should be organised.  They don't believe that the leader of the oppositon is the fucking antichrist, or other things that can be disproved by 30 seconds with Google.

Comments

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Dude, I think that if I was one of the Republican voters you're discussing and I and read this, I'd think you were a posh twit laughing at me. That's not the same as me thinking you're a posh twit. Because you're asking, "How do I negotiate with them", I'm trying to represent what - to my best understanding - are the problems of going in with that attitude.

I'm really not trying to insult you here.

[andrewducker]

This piece isn't aimed at the republican voters though. This piece is me venting my frustration at the situation. I don't think I have any Republican readers, let alone any who would endorse any of those opinions.