<p>Haha, I actually want to watch that coverage. I wonder if it’s online like the rest of the episodes. Off to check</p>
<p>It is. I remember getting bored and going to random websites and then turning around and seeing Jon Stewart say “…And the next president of the United States is Barack Obama” and then I saw his picture and then I scrambled for the remote to change it to nbc.</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>Do you know how many people told me today that this country is incredibly ■■■■■■■■ for picking a socialist? Many.</p>
<p>Obama won my precinct.</p>
<p>It was practically a party in my high school. I think the few repubs were afraid they’d be thrown out if they said anything.</p>
<p>All the dem kids (ie, most of the black kids) wore Obama shirts and all the McCain people decided to have heated discussions about how Obama won because he’s black and that his race was an advantage.</p>
<p>And I sighed.</p>
<p>That’s when you start the scoreboard chant. </p>
<p>Tennizzler #1:Obama’s a socialist marxist pig dog
Tennizzler #2:Yeah, Palin 2012! McCain should have–
Snoop: What was that? SCOREBOARD SCOREBOARD SCOREBOARD…</p>
<p>Works like a charm (at basketball games). You could use the more advanced one, but you’d need someone to respond.</p>
<p>I have never heard the scoreboard chant, so it probably wouldn’t work on them.</p>
<p>Half of them are hung up on free health care and how Obama will bankrupt the country into debt and I was all …Already happened.</p>
<p>Is that not the scoreboard?
Yes that is the scoreboard!</p>
<p>Is that not a [Fill in winning team score]?
Yes that is a [ ]!</p>
<p>Is that not a [Fill in the losing team score]?
Yes that is a [ ]!</p>
<p>Is that not the winning team(point at Obama)?
Yes that is the winning team!</p>
<p>Is that not the losing team(point to McCain)?
Yes that is the losing team!</p>
<p>Winning team(Point to Obama)!
Losing team(Point to McCain)!</p>
<p>Winning team(Point to Obama)!
Losing team(Point to McCain)!</p>
<p>Winning team(Point to Obama)!
Losing team(Point to McCain)!</p>
<p>You’re saying you’ve never done that before? Sheltered Tennizzlers…</p>
<p>Well at least they seem to know something about Obama’s platform. Here, people think he’ll bring change to the US. Why? Nobody knows. He just will.</p>
<p>But the ones wearing Obama shirts don’t know about his platform, but the McCain supporters only talk about how socialist Obama is.</p>
<p>And I doubly sigh.</p>
<p>Pshh, capitalism hasn’t ever existed. Period. We’ve always had elements of socialism. You should ask them why Bush and Paulsen decided to buy up all of the banks, socialism if I’ve ever seen it.</p>
<p>Even socialists know he isn’t a socialist. But I can’t call them out on ignorance, because they’re my friends. It’s terrible.</p>
<p>You should give me lots of facts to arm myself with for tomorrow, because it was me and another girl basically fighting half of our ap chem class. Exhausting.</p>
<p>Hmm, first bait her into calling him a Marxist. Then ask her if she thinks Obama sees America headed towards communism or if he’ll be content to stop at a “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. I usually get blank stares from that one. Then tell her that certain markets whose repeated failure have negative rippling effects need to be regulated to protect the greater solvency of the economy. Tell her that the over-extension of credit is an error that has been repeated throughout history, and when people don’t act rationally markets fail. Tell her that a federalized health care alternative wouldn’t be necessary if the Republicans hadn’t loosened all of the merger law in the U.S. allowing the major health care companies to become price discriminating monopolies. Tell her that fifty years of economic theory have collapsed in the last two months, and that her arrogance to assume she has all of the answers is staggering.</p>
<p>That should do it. It sounds fancy, but nothing too complicated.</p>
<p>Oh, you could also ask her what school of economic thought she most closely identifies with. Most likely she won’t be able to come up with one, and you can patronizingly tell her that’s because her thoughts aren’t clear enough to classify.</p>
<p>There was discussion at my school that Obama is going to paint the White House black. He will also start a nationwide campaign to kill babies and take everyone’s money.</p>
<p>Actually, this girl and I both like Obama. It’s the rest of our class that thinks we’re Marxist idiots, but that is neither here nor there.</p>
<p>And they keep talking about free health care and how it’ll last a month and then we’ll all be taxed and on food stamps and they’ll have to move to Canada. And then I seriously don’t know what to say. Educate me, o wise Chicagoan. I don’t think they know what’s in Canada besides wily Canadians.</p>
<p>Oh, and then they talk about how Any Tax Raises will Kill The Economy and how they shouldn’t have to work for the laziness of others.</p>
<p>You honestly have no idea how much I want punch something.</p>
<p>You can’t argue policy with people like that, they don’t know enough to form an argument. Instead, your best bet is to make them look foolish and win the argument that way. I find mentioning vaguely related, esoteric principles of economics works best. For health care you could tell the class that when health care is a business, the incentive is to make money, and this is inherently inefficient if your goal is to treat as many people as possible. You can then mention something about market failure and negative externalities. You don’t have to understand it or even make sense, as long as you say it with authority.</p>
<p>I know I can’t argue. I told the other girl to give up and we gave each other high fives.</p>
<p>My besfrand’s boyfriend thinks Bush will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents ever.</p>
<p>That’s how red my state is.</p>
<p>^haha my APUSH teacher thinks that too…lol. And he’s from New Jersey…</p>
<p>Are you sure you can’t just embarrass them? A little bit of economics goes a long way in sounding smarter than the other kiddies in the room.</p>
<p>I wonder what colors the Canadians use for politics.</p>