When speaking to right wingers you do need to realise that you are both speaking different languages. The most common cause of confusion when speaking across the chasm of the political divide is that the right winger will hear your ironic musings as if they were suggesting serious causal relationships between things.
The right winger is always on the look out for causes. In particular, he considers the issue of moral corruption as having a cause, or causes, that can be very easily traced and understood, through simple logical equations.
The use of irony implies recognition that aspects of life do not follow a logical course. The right wing ideologue sees such a suggestions and nonsensical, or "silly", because he believes that life has to follow a narrowly logical pattern and that people always get their "just desserts". Except -- if it is he who isn't getting his. Then, he is the one who is being victimised by life.
That's why, in some other instances, one's use of irony is taken to imply that one is mocking one's own causes.
The right winger is always on the look out for causes. In particular, he considers the issue of moral corruption as having a cause, or causes, that can be very easily traced and understood, through simple logical equations.
The use of irony implies recognition that aspects of life do not follow a logical course. The right wing ideologue sees such a suggestions and nonsensical, or "silly", because he believes that life has to follow a narrowly logical pattern and that people always get their "just desserts". Except -- if it is he who isn't getting his. Then, he is the one who is being victimised by life.
That's why, in some other instances, one's use of irony is taken to imply that one is mocking one's own causes.
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