A Response to Ignorance

I recently posted on twitter/Facebook about the sad fact that we have a presidential ticket for the first time ever where both candidates (McCain and Palin) have been convicted of ethics violations before the election. (On a side note: How the FUCK has the media completely ignored the fact that Palin was found guilty of this!?!?!? I know they released the report at 7pm on last friday night, the time when stories are released in order to be killed since the news cycle is over for the weekend, but COME ON! This is a vice presidential cantidate!)

Anyway, after I posted this to my profile, I recieved this response:

I didnt get much into the keating 5 thing and I don't know much about it. As far as troopergate goes, that guy needed to be fired long before she stepped in. He tazed a 9 year old, was abusing his wife, and was drinking on the job. I'm more concerned with a socialist government then a leader that crossed a line to ... Read Moremake sure a bad guy was out of a position of power.

I posted this response:

I have a low tolerance for ignorance, especially when it appears on my facebook profile. Do you even know what socialist means? Socialism is a free high school education. Socialism is fire and police departments that protect you every day funded by the state. Apparently you're so ignorant that you believe the Republican talking points and are enough of a jerk to repeat them on people's facebook profiles who you don't even know (who the fuck are you? so what if we went to high school together, I don't know you.). So you'd rather have two people that are convicted of ethics violations running this country than "socialism". Great. I hope you don't have health insurance, I hope your kids go to an overcrowded underfunded high school, I hope your house burns down and the firefighters don't show up out of respect for you disdain for their "socialist" public services. Fuck you, go away.