…not anymore than anyone else, anyway.

I was chatting with Faith and she was giving me a good-natured hard time about my perceived hatred for Republicans. This is an issue that comes up again and again, and unlike Faith, not everyone understands that I’m not exclusionary. So, with this still floating around at the top of my brain, I thought this might be a good time to clear some things up.

I don’t hate Republicans. I don’t hate the rich. I don’t hate people who are older than me or younger than me or smarter or less-intelligent than me. I don’t hate people who are thinner, fatter, taller, shorter, or a different ethnicity or religion than me. I don’t hate anyone.* I may strongly disagree with someone. But I would never hate anyone based on their beliefs. Especially as a group.

Believe it or not, my friends range from hard-core Green Party organizers to staffers of some of the most conservative politicians in the country. They’re people. I don’t bar someone from a dinner party because they voted for that man who seems to think he’s our President. Life’s pretty damn boring if you only hang out with people who are exactly like you, don’t you think?

That’s one of the things I love about the DC-Bloggers list (see links to right). I don’t have one iota of control over who’s on that list. There are conservatives, liberals and everything in between (and beyond). It balances out my self-selected links. And it pushes me to read blogs I might not otherwise find.

But see, this is my blog. This is where I get to say whatever the fuck I want (within reason) about whatever is on my mind. Sometimes I seek to balance my opinion with an opposing argument, but I don’t feel it’s necessary.

*That’s a lie. I have a short list of people I hate. The odds of you being one of the 2 people on it fall somewhere between slim and none. And if you’re on the list you know, baby, you know.