Fort Collins has a lot of casual dining restaurants, and to whatever extent my wife can drag me out of the house, I visit them. For some reason, when there's some sort of patio setup, or other form of outdoor eating, you can always hear the nearby tables' conversations. After my experience last night at Island Grill, I think I've got enough iterations of a particular experience to say it's a pattern.
What I'm talking about, is the loud liberal conversation. Colorado voted for George W Bush in the 2004 election, and we keep our most dense concentration of liberals in Boulder. Despite this demographic reality, I have never heard a nearby table loudly blathering conservative talking points. By comparison, I have, at least a half dozen times, been forced to sit through a meal in which the neighboring table is having “the liberal dinner conversation.”
This conversation always shares a few common themes. Al Franken will be mentioned. The Boulder station, AM760 will be mentioned. The incompetence of the Bush administration will be mentioned. The “strange stuff“ about 9-11 will be mentioned. All of this will be mentioned with a tone of informed concern. The liberals having this conversation know a lot of important information, and they're really concerned how nobody else does, how nobody else can be troubled to be as wise or informed as they are. It goes this way every single time.
Back when I used to post on GNN, a popular mantra was to accuse the “neo-cons” of being sheep. Brainwashed, un-thinking, party-line-repeating sheep. Now, if one were to imagine what a man-sheep would act like, I'd assume it would involve a lot of repeating of the same phrase, in a robotic fashion. Well, after hearing a half dozen different liberals all say “hah, our government would never do that,” in a sarcastic tone, I'd say that's about as close to a sheepish bleat as it gets. Make some insane statement, then act sarcastic about how the brainwashed masses would never believe it.
Liberal 1: The seismograph readings at the World Trade Center don't show a rising vibration, like you'd get from a building falling down, but instead, there's a big vibration at the start, and then it decreases.
Liberal 2: A big vibration... Like a bomb?
Liberal 1: Well, heh, what do you think?
Liberal 2: Heh. Our government would never do that! *eye roll*
And that phrase is just one of many. These people ran through the exact same talking points as every other liberal dinner conversation I've ever had the misfortune of having loudly conducted near my earholes. They were experts on seismography when they needed to be. Experts on aircraft crash investigation. Experts on American and international history. Major experts, really.
There's something incredibly awesome about listening to a cluster of retards talking about things they don't understand with a tone of authority, and perhaps even pity for the less informed. It's just amazing to hear them describe a website they think was really informative and spot on, and a secret known only to the really, really well informed, when I've actually been to the website, and it was a shoddy pile of crackpot gibberish. The conclusion is pretty clear. Liberals all think the exact same thing, they all talk about it loudly, and they all think themselves very unique and special for doing so.
Now, I realize that whether or not George W. Bush is incompetent is open for debate. Everyone has their opinion, and everyone's happy to present it. What's not open for debate is this: The first place you should go looking for the correct opinion is not the table full of assholes who think they're clever and insightful for having the exact same conversation I've heard five other tables full of assholes have. Listening to AM760 and having a few margaritas does not make you smart, folks. It makes you a slightly drunk parrot. Please stop wondering aloud “what you should do to wake people up.” Worry about yourself. Step one will be shutting your idiot mouth for the remainder of your painfully useless life, at least while I'm trying to eat my dinner.