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Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
10. Not easy but most people in my area are not bad at all
Thu May 5, 2016, 10:03 AM
May 2016


People seem to get along despite politics and religion, and I flat out say I'm a radical liberal to get that out of the way right off the bat.

I think maybe one of the worst moments was when Bush was in office and I had a "Frodo Failed...Bush got the Ring" bumper sticker on my car. Somebody placed a bunch of shopping carts behind my car in a pouring rain so I would get soaked moving them. I just laughed.

If that's how cheap politics is for these people -- making someone's life miserable because they don't like your opinion -- well, you have to feel sorry for those types, because they have NO lives, and their parents never taught them how to take criticism or have a respectful debate. Either you agree with them or you suck -- in their teeny tiny little uneducated noggins.

I have gotten some stink eye from some of the meaner and crueler pasty white conservative men, but they are so ignorant and corrupt I smile back, knowing karma is gonna kick their ass one day, so they can look as mean and intimidating as they like. I consider it a compliment that those evil men hate me.

I am also a liberal who owns guns, (had to laugh at a Trump supporter who claimed all liberals hate guns. He should come visit the gungeon sometime, but he insists no liberals have guns. We don't brag in public about it, but we DO have them partly to protect ourselves from conservative wackos like him) and I'm not afraid to shoot them, as do most people here. So I don't worry about being harmed for my beliefs.

Any red state also has lots of liberals, and I know plenty of them, too. They keep me hopeful.

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Just curious what is it like [View all] gabeana May 2016 OP
I see it as my mission to kick ignorant conservative redstate ass Skittles May 2016 #1
Do you get frustrated gabeana May 2016 #2
well that's like, every day Skittles May 2016 #3
lol n/t gabeana May 2016 #12
At times it's exhausting. phylny May 2016 #4
I recently read a depressing kairos12 May 2016 #14
Exchange Virginia with Texas and my story is the same. SMH. nt ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #18
Living in SlowHio during the Bewsh years only made my resolve and cause stronger. HughBeaumont May 2016 #5
I live in Texas. Where do I even begin... Javaman May 2016 #6
Much the same in Idaho IDemo May 2016 #8
I only wish I could live in Austin. I'm in that libertarian/right wing red hole of death... ChisolmTrailDem May 2016 #19
I think it helps you think more strategically about party politics. Brickbat May 2016 #7
Discrimination and bigotry based on political orientation Hortensis May 2016 #9
Not easy but most people in my area are not bad at all Tsiyu May 2016 #10
A big, resounding, "Hell yeah!" to the red state liberals. phylny May 2016 #15
Too scary to put a Bernie sticker sorefeet May 2016 #11
I live in Arizona and occasionaly get into with the crazies. Now that Cruz kairos12 May 2016 #13
I wonder about this too PasadenaTrudy May 2016 #16
Former blue-stater living in Texas... I put on my Bush family (Dumb and Dumber) ScreamingMeemie May 2016 #17
I live in a blue state, but.... Tree-Hugger May 2016 #20
Most of the conservatives I know are traditional... Whiskeytide May 2016 #21
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