my teaparty sister threatened me last week

[magical thyme]

41. no I am not.

I cut her out of my life 28 or so years ago. I allowed her back in only 2 years ago because she was fighting recurrent cancer. Since the cancer has been in remission, she has returned to behaving in her old ways on spontaneous abuse, so I have cut her out of my life again.

My concern is this:

In her 2-hour rant last year, I got the impression that she is actively involved with a tea party group. She specifically referred to a general she had been talking to, and was giggly about what was being planned. She really was expecting some sort of government shutdown/take over, and this was all just a couple months before the teaparty deficit cap showdown that nearly did shutdown the government and did cause the US to lose its AAA credit rating.

This time she wasn't giggly, she was more like a wounded animal on a rampage, and was threatening me. I don't take her threat as a personal "I'm going to get you," so much as a "believe as I order you to because we are going to get all of you." Civil war type stuff, with choose my side because we're going to crush the other side.

In other words, I suspect that whatever group it is that she identifies with, they are planning more insanity this year, at the critical juncture of the election. And they are like wounded animals. Last year will seem like a tea party. That is all.