South of Washington

For chrissakes it's not PLAUSIBLE for a reasonable sane person to have these opinions and be taken seriously in this town. After that most people give up and conform to the wildly liberal platforms brought on only by having a friend, or at least a friend of a friend, who is

• gay 
• had an abortion
• is black yet shops at the Outlets
• or can read Hebrew. 

Being raped by diversity is a different kind of oppression that forces you to adhere to the un-sticky. Can you even fathom how impossibly difficult it is to participate in this Kum Ba Yah nonsense while still hosting the facade of not giving a shit about anything? Makes me wonder how we would react if shipped to Mississippi for a exchange student program. The sad part is, we're not even that diverse. 90% of the people living here are white, upper-middle class, college graduates who shoot the breeze with their neighbors every morning. People who get a kick out of vacationing to Florida or Texas because it's so damn foreign to them. EXCEPT that we kid ourselves by believing that "there's good in everyone and by the way I have slightly agnostic viewpoints because I'm cultured and I read blogs sometimes". Venture 12 miles to the north and you instantly realize that the one time you held a gun belonging to your friend's father does not make you brave/dangerous, it makes you an asshole for assuming as much. Oh, and posting an article with the comment "kind of interesting" is not taking a stand; it's a cowardly coping mechanism that allows you to see how everyone else feels about the matter before agreeing with them. Whatever.