What does that mean?
" Maintain your reality"...
It's like a sly insult. "Here, you kids go play, the adults have important things to do".
And I doubt you wish me the best, so have the guts to say that.
Maintain my reality. In the face of...what? The clear and overwhelming truth you possess, that I'm too ignorant and unecudated to see?
That's the implication.
Here's my reality. There's a percentage of the population in the country where I was born, who have different values and beliefs than me. They talk about justice, and white privilege, and basically make me out to be evil, and simultaneously too blind and ignorant to see my own evil, unjust ways. They take words and names that mean something, and use them to mean something else entirely, or to describe someone or something in a way that can't be defended against. " Did you stop masturbating in the closet?" You can't answer yes or no.
I've decided that the percentage of the population that identifies as "left" or "progressive" is insane. Not stupid. Not ignorant, many are much more educated than myself.
When I moved out of Madison, a leftist Paradise on Earth, one of the last things I saw was 2 people sitting on the condo entrance stoop . A weeping transvestite, being consoled by a 300 pound 20 something year woman with bright pink hair and metal sticking out of her face.
I think that's the result of some poor life decisions, weeping on a stoop somewhere. That's the end result of the left's progressive agenda. A young woman who can't be told to go lose weight to save her own life, and a man who is no longer a man, but will never be a woman, either. Lost people. It's sad, really.
And honestly, I recoil from that. I don't want to be around it, in real life. It makes me uncomfortable. Now, you may not care about my comfort, and that's fine. It's my job to see to my comfort.
I don't want that for my kids, you dig?
I don't want my kids to be told it's just peachy to be a sex worker, or a weeping transvestite sitting on a stranger's porch.
And that's my reality, I believe that if you are left, and a progressive, you probably think any of those things up there are great.
You can stay away from me and mine.
Except on the forum. Here, I would hope we can talk about... Well, anything.
Lefties get beat up a little here, so I get it's rough. It's like me going to the comment section of huffpo. But the idea, at least to me, is that we have prepping to tie us together, that's the fallback.
And maybe that's enough that we keep coming here and talking. Or not.