re: #139 Mattand

Unfriend him. I’ve mentioned before about dumping one of my GF’s college friends after watching him go full metal wingnut. This guy posted a cartoon of Obama which claimed he was knowingly working with Al Queda. Literally had a Glenn Beck mindset.

As for people changing: it happens. There’s a guy I’ve known since 7th grade, who I was good friends with for years. Best man at his wedding. Like your guy, he’s gone complete conservative, replete with racist remarks that he claims are just “politically incorrect.”

The breaking point for me was sitting around with him and some other guys at the start of the 2nd Iraq War. They switched over to the live broadcast of the Baghdad bombing on Fox, cracked some beers, and laughed their asses off. People are dying on the screen and these guys are treating it like a football game.

It really wasn’t a hard decision to make. It was also when I started to become aware that conservatives were starting to go off the deep end.

Watching bombing or military action on TV is sort of like that. It is very easy to get the disconnect between the entertainment of the TV coverage and the fact that it reflects *real* people be killed.

Lots of things to blame it on, but that it happens doesn’t surprise me. The bloodthirsty barbarian is not buried that far down under the thin civilizing veneer.