Oh for a minute there I thought maybe you were part of the problem there whipping things up but I was looking at it as someone glancing through the board. I think 1% of the crowd is the loudest (like how the little dog is the nosiest) on these types of things. Having met people from all over most of them seemed normal and just like everyone else. Well, except one group of people that seem surly right now and have a problem, troubled me in the workplace but that's another story, and they don't spell with Cyrillic.
This media and their cohorts, here these people are going off on Russia this or that but you know nobody can say anything about some other types of people or lifestyle choices etc that are components of their mainstay voter base.... Total double standard to me and I'm not trying to convey anything this is just comparing apples to oranges etc...When I travel it ticks me off people outside the US treat me like I'm all in on this shtuff or something. When in reality I have nothing to do with it or share the same opinions they think I somehow represent. Last decade it was we were all warmongers or some crap and got a lot of dirty looks and sneers from strangers, and it's like what the hell did I do. What is it now I dunno.
Oh well good to know you don't want to put up with this either the best people can do is just their best to go out and meet normal people out there, who aren't focused on the next elections or posturing etc....Now to get people to realize we're all not part of some close knit rabid politicking group, or that we need to be shunned for some policy we never decided on or were consulted about, and see past that that would be meeting me half way. I think some just take it out on the nearest person and don't care so they're not totally thoughtful about it either. Seems to me we have to navigate a bad rep with the political spin on turbo-overdrive and can't do anything really.
