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Would you rather hitch a ride with a conservative or a liberal?
From the book: Chum for Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters by David Satterlee
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Would you rather hitch a ride with a conservative or a liberal?
It was getting late on a cold Iowa afternoon when I stopped
for a hitchhiker on an empty stretch of two-lane highway.
After putting his three heavy bags into the back, settling
in, and thanking me, he told a story about a conservative town down the road
that had confiscated his companion dog of 3-years and refused to release it
without a $100 ransom that he couldn’t afford.
He asked me why I had picked him up. I said, “Well, I’ve
been doing a lot of thinking about politics recently and about the differences
between liberals and conservatives. I’ve become absolutely certain that we’re
all in this together and it really bothers me when people take the attitude
that as long as they get theirs, everybody else can go to heck.”
He replied, “Yeah, I figured you were a good guy when I saw
your Obama bumper sticker.”
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