I Love America

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005 | I'm a bitch and I know it.

or, I’m Becoming a Rightist Log Cabin Republican

I love America because I can get m y taxes done online while having coffee with friends on Valentine’s Day, a table of single queens and one fag stag. It was amusing to queen out as I tried to answer the questions given out to me at Turbotax. Since I had income from two states (Georgia and Florida), I had a more complex form to fill out. This is why i never got into accounting or other finance-related stuff. I might be able to pass calculus, but don’t ask me to balance my checking account. I know that all I need to do is just reach into my asian self and pull out some innate accounting genes, but it’s just too much trouble.

I was walking downtown today, and I had some very disturbing thoughts. I was enjoying some ABBA on my Shuffle, and I heard a chanting done by a protest line outside one of the many office buildings. They were protesting against unfair labor practices by some corporate company, and had been since last fall. My first thought was that the chanting was extremely annoying. The second thought was “This is such communist bulllshit. Why are these people protesting when they should be out looking for a job?”. I walked past near them and completely ignored them. I refused any pamphlet they were giving out (save paper!), and went on my way.

To add onto that, I was particularly nasty to a T-Mobile representative on the phone when I encountered a problem with my account. I have no idea how to explain my particularly bourgeois behavior. I confessed my evil thoughts to Michael, who was slightly offended, but I pleaded momentary insanity. I guess I have been saturated with the presence of so many liberal free-thinkers for the past two years leading up to the election, and now that the election is over, I am slowly regressing back to moderation. I might espouse liberal ideas that I know are right, because I know they are right, but if I do things and react by pure gut reaction, I find myself acting very un-liberal. I grew up in a conservative setting. I schmoozed with a rich conservative social circle while in high school. I sometimes feel distanced from people who did not have the upbringing I did. Does this make me a snob?

Like I said, a moment of temporary insanity.

2 Comments to I Love America

Alexa
February 15, 2005

That’s what I don’t get about protests either. Shouldn’t most of those people be working? When was the last time your boss gave you the day off so you could go protest? If I tried that at my old job she would have laughed in my face.

Jess
February 27, 2005

I am slowly regressing back to moderation.

Well, moderation isn’t so bad. If we had a bit more of it in this country, we’d be a lot better off.

As for falling into more conservative ways when you go by pure gut reaction, that fits. When you’re irritated or angry, it tends to bring out your darker side (or at least that’s how it works for me). Seeing the details behind issues takes time and thought, but it’s worth it.

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