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[rm]

Can I just say how frightening I find the Republican convention?

Open religious hatred and chants of "USA" that sound angry rather than proud. I am sincerely, sincerely, completely creeped the fuck out by this. I wish I didn't think it sounded high strung when I say I feel unsafe listening to this shit.

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[habiliments.livejournal.com]

I was having the same thought.

And then I had to mute the TV because Giuliani makes me so angry.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

As disturbed as I am by the rest of the speeches, Giuliani's is the only one that has genuinely enraged me thus far.

[hllangel]

I'm about to switch from the US Open for Palin's speech, and then I'm switching straight to the Daily Show to combat the bad vibes.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

I ran out of spit, so had to moon him.

[habiliments.livejournal.com]

Nice.

I could take to throwing Starburst at the TV. Once, in a fit of hatred, I stuck a marshmallow to a hated screenwriter's face (on the TV, I mean) during the Oscars. I can't say I recommend this. Marshmallow is harder to remove than you might think.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

The chants of USA sound more like Sieg Heils to me.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Did you hear Mitt Romney say "radical Islam is evil"? Freaked me out. Everoyne cheered. And I think they would have even if he hadn't said "radical"

[redwitch.livejournal.com]

That's why I only saw 5 minutes of it. Damn.

Oh, I think I saw you at Marrus' art booth at Dragon, but you were engaged in conversation. I hate I missed your panels, but the show was rough, and I was really really tired. I was so hoping to finally meet you since I've been reading you since 9/11.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I saw Frolicon people come by and I wondered if any of them were you! So Yes, I think so!

It was a hard con for me too. I know how to do it now, I think, so next year!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

My father in law grew up in Nazi Germany (he was 3 when Hitler came to power, and escaped from East Germany to West Germany as a teenager).

He's incredibly freaked out by the Republicans for the last 8 years or so. And he used to vote Republican for most of the time he's been an American citizen (he came here in 1957).

When he says something reminds him of the Nazis, my blood runs cold. He's said it to me of numerous behaviours the Republicans have been enacting. It's really really scary.

N.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Doesn't sound high-strung to me. I believe that to some folks at the convention, we are the enemy.

(Scarier yet, before I can start watching it live, I have to watch an ad claiming that 8 out of 10 women have damaged hair!)

[drfardook.livejournal.com]

As I said in my post about the RNC... I don't understand how Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson can get away with appealing to that middle american homespun god damn pol-i-tician meme without someone reminding them that they're both rich white men who spent plenty of time in Washington (and hollywood) and are shilling for a man who came from an elite military well within the beltway family.

There's something creepy about watching someone who on a good day is worth half a billion pulling that shit and seeing the crowd go for it.

[girlingoldboots.livejournal.com]

It doesn't sound high strung. I'm listening to my folks watch it, and their happy by all the hate.

I'm scared to keep living in this country, honestly.

[rm.livejournal.com]

With obviously less cred (our family came here long before the war), this is the reaction I keep having too.

It's like a friend of mine who is afraid of German Shepards. She wonders if experience is meaningless and time is just a big ball of stuff and if being Jewish just means being afraid of that sort of dog no matter what.

[julesndairyland.livejournal.com]

I have to admit to being avoidant and simply not watching it. I feel like I will be so enraged I will have a aneurysm or be so frightened I won't be able to sleep.

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

Thank you. "Drill baby, drill!" are you fucking kidding me?

I want to be amused, but find myself actually terrified.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I was raised to watch all of both conventions. When they started broadcasting less of them on network, my mother called to make sure I had cable, so I could watch it all. She calls me sometimes, and she doesn't just sound angry anymore, but scared.

Oh and I've known I was the enemy since Dan Quayle.

I'm a woman. Queer. Non-Christian. Definitely part of the cultural elite. I loved Murphy Brown. And I've had an abortion.

[tantra-cat.livejournal.com]

Lie. Lie. 9/11. More Lies....

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Thing is... he's not Jewish. They have documents back to the 17th century (not forged) that prove the Aryaness of my husband's genetic line.

It's fun! We all take great pride in the fact that my marriage to midnightstation is a great big FUCK YOU to Hitler and his eugenics program. I mean, what's a nice Aryan boy like him doing married to a Black-Irish-Native American-Jew anyway?! (Ans: Diversifying the gene pool kthnx!)

It creeps me out because my FIL is very... even. He is not given to hyperbole in the slightest. He sees things quite clearly and calmly, and is a very mellow man, who usually can argue why something isn't as bad as one might think. So, when he says something is Nazi like? My ears prick up. Cause he would never ever say it lightly. :(

N.

[a-hollow-year.livejournal.com]

I can't even watch it, but the reports are that it's utterly vile, especially Giuliani. I'm hoping it backfires. *tiny spark of optimism gutters*

[tommx.livejournal.com]

I did, but what freaked me out even more was Rudy's comment about Islamic Terrorism.

This whole thing is scaring the shit out of me.

[humascot97.livejournal.com]

Oh. Shit.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

It makes me feel unsafe too, though possibly in a different way.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

If McCain wins I will meet you somewhere and we will burn something. I'd sort of like to burn my draft today--but I would regret that later. I think. *clings*

[dine.livejournal.com]

I normally like to watch at least part, so I know exactly just what was said, but I have been absolutely unable to have it on this week - I keep getting weirded out in a way not typical for me.

reading transcripts is becoming hard enough, but I cannot stomach the blatant lies and sheer hatred so many speakers espouse.

[marcmagus]

Did you hear Palin after?

[tommx.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. See my post.

[annablume.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. They need to leave. Now.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I'm Jewish. Anti-Semitism scares me a lot, and I'm kind of twitchy about Christianity. However, I don't have a problem with German Shepherds.

I found that I could tone down my fear of anti-semitism by outsourcing it. I don't have to be hypervigilant because there are plenty of other people keeping track. They'll tell me if things start to go bad.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Some of it was so stupid, Guiliani was a relief.

There was a bit about having a choice about what school to send your children too. I wonder if that means they've completely given up on the black vote.

[tantra-cat.livejournal.com]

Well, you can start burning a lot of non Palin approved books...She's into that, you know.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I could only ever burn copies of Ayn Rand books.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I hope I can find some of this later. I don't have cable, so I'm missing it :( But I am reading all the articles I can about it.

[shipchan.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed. I can't watch it because I'm too freaked out by people who well...hate me in a number of ways.

[mme-furiosa.livejournal.com]

I usually just listen to it on NPR...that said, I'm sure there will be plenty of Youtube clips of the speeches. Every gory, grasping, last one of them.

[shipchan.livejournal.com]

Is she? I'm not surprised. I'd sort like a list of the books she hates, would be my winter reading list.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I'm avoiding it for just that reason, but I know precisely what you mean. The only thing that's keeping me from being totally freaked is that the mainstream press has picked up many of Palin's various scandals, and I'm betting (or at least hoping) that this will utterly sink McCain to the point that I won't be sitting there on election night worrying that that pair of deeply scary people might actually end up running the nation I live in.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I can't begin to imagine what it's like to be Muslim and living here now. The hardcore Republicans don't like people like either of us, but they also have a specific enemy group that they've decided is evil with the big E, and that's really scary stuff.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

I'm really starting to miss that little fucker Nixon...

Oy.

[haya.livejournal.com]

Jewish girl right here. I am annoyed that Mr 7 houses and Mrs Heath Bar (It's true) are trying to pretend that the entire Republican party is anti-establishment. Boggles my already taxed brain.
And yes, I'm scared too.

Yeesh.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

I feel like such a lamer, but I cannot, cannot watch that stuff. It just makes me violently upset and feeling like I have to puke!

I don't even watch it later on youtube. I usually read speeches when they are posted/commentary.

[sethg]

Maybe four years from now the Republicans will nominate a Muslim, and then whenever the candidate gets any kind of criticism, the party will angrily accuse the Democrats of religious prejudice.

[thornsilver]

I feel unsafe listening to this shit.

Yeah, me too.

They all creep the hell out of me. Also I have flashbacks to "1984" and "Handmaid's Tale".

arg

[sethg]

BTW, this is the first time I've seen a Ru9y/Giu1an1 speech. Can the man say anything without snarling?

[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

I turned to my friend D who was watching with me and said "Imagine how the muslims in the audience feel" and then in unison we said "Oh wait, there aren't any!"

*$%@ scary doesn't even cover it.

[poodah.livejournal.com]

I took comfort this morning when NPR said fewer Americans have been calling themselves Republicans of late. Sadly, that also means those folks who do call themselves Republican are more militantly Republican than ever. FOX news scares me too.