"Okay, we'll talk."

  "It turns out a lot of them don't even know what Socialism is really." 

  "Some people just can't do things for themselves.  They feel lame." 

  "Some just are in an ANTI- mood.  Nothing worked for them very well in life and they're railing against whatever 'systems' they detect." 

  "Like who to blame?" 

  "Yeah." 

  "There's a lot of hurt." 

  "And no healthcare." 

  "It's not helping to call anyone who doesn't agree with you (i)crazy(i)." 

  The men weren't shocked but didn't either seem to know how to process the information.  "That's (i)entitlement(i)," a bitter personality said.  A younger man got up from the roadside table.  "I can't do this anymore." 

  "What do you mean?" 

  "I mean there's nothing left to rip apart.  The dogs, it's like any conversation is just into the dog's teeth." 

  The three reps from the three parties looked at the table.  None were all that ferocious as seen on TV.  But neither was any one of them willing to give an inch. 

  "So that's good right?"  

  People expressing physical discomfort. 

  "I mean it's like so-called peace, like there's a party for everyone!" 

  It wasn't a "secret" meeting.  But it wasn't negotiations.  It was informal and it was more or less to make some sort of public statement that politics is not war.  Even though in sentiment it comes close.  This was a pivotal moment (i)off the record(i) in the gearing up to be less violent.  Our own Country needed to start with being (i)less violent(i) or how could we entreat with Countries producing hitmen and terrorists? 

  "Shall we endeavor to dissect our ideologies?" A moderator asked once people had made the choice to participate or not. 

  "Dissect away," said somebody. 

  "Well, I can't be invasive here.  I don't know any of you.  I don't know what you believe." 

  "We're going to be out of here for lunchtime, right?!" 

  "I CANNOT accept that it's all the same God." 

  (i)Whoa,(i) the moderator got up from the seat and took up a whiteboard marker.  Wrote God in quotes on the board.  It looked little in a field of white. 

  "Let's list religions under that," a man who'd seemed indifferent to conversation said. 

  "What if we don't have a religion?" A guy asked. 

  "Are we defining ourselves here?" 

  "I'm just the moderator." 

  "If we are defining ourselves, how is that informing our decisions?" 

  "Put (i)political(i) up there." Someone said.