My battleground state is becoming a war zone for the us..

[Only Me]

Until recently, the right-wing has had little fanfare publicly for the shrub and his weeds. But, sadly, I must say they are rallying their troops. My youngest son got in an actual fight at school over politics. Apparently, a large group of high school seniors, were chanting vote Bush, etc.,.etc.,. while my child waited in the lunch line. My son said out loud "Why?"
They gave and answer (yes, it was a stupid one). My son said, but * did this and didn't you see that report yesterday about the poverty level, and jobless rate., etc., etc.,. Yep, he is pretty smart.
Some of the older boys got mad because it made them look dumb or rather 'misguided' and they still couldn't answer my sons questions.
One of the larger boys attacked my son physically. But my kid is not a push-over, and I am told (by a teacher), as my son punched he was spouting things about the Shrub.
The teacher said that my son was "instigating the argument further
with his political talk." I said...." Well, that's how I have raised him. To have the 'courage' to try correct wrongs, and have the intelligence to know what 'is wrong'. And have the confidence to speak his mind. I said, "Sounds to me like the other boy didn't even have a clue, only a hot temper and an attitude problem, yep he's definitely a 'republican'. I am sure his parents very proud of him". Inside I was so angry and hurt that
this had happened. My child, like everyone else has a right to his
opinions and should be able to have them with out fear of physical attack or verbal abuse. I went to speak to the principle and he said that as long as no one got hurt he wasn't going to reprimand anyone. But all this political talk is not good it's too controversial right now for school. I said, "Political talk, this is our future we are talking about. I want my kids to be politically active and have opinions they have formulated on their own base on reasoning and facts. They're going to be making the decisions for us in our old age, the least we can do is encourage them to educate themselves in every way so they can make the correct decisions. And you shouldn't encourage violence by allowing bullies to get my with it. Needless to say we had further heated exchanges. I finished by telling him, that if my son got hurt at this school because someones picking on him, I would hold him and the other child's parents legally responsible for any further violence.

I also had a heated one-sided argument(or something) with a stranger. I was sitting, parked at Wendy's. I have a "Kerry-Edwards" sticker on my bumper. He walked out from inside. Stood at the rear of my car and was saying something to the lady beside him. He then took his foot and rubbed it across my sticker! Boy oh boy, I was on him....I told him a lot! I think he didn't see me in the car and because I was so fast, it shocked him. He didn't say a word in return. He headed straight for his vehicle trying to leave.

It is most definitely getting heated up here and how it goes, is
still anyones guess. I truly dread the next few months of this
sort of thing. Is this sort of thing happening where you
live? Anyone?

[NEOBuckeye]

1. What state do you live in?

I'm in the Northeastern Ohio/Akron-Canton-Cleveland area. There are some Bush supporters here, but there are many, many more Democrats and Independents, and many people who will be voting for Kerry on November 2. The Republicans and people who support Bush may argue with the Dems and Kerry supporters here from time to time, but it never gets ugly. I guess they know that they're way outnumbered. :)

I guess the story is somewhat different in the South-Central (Columbus) and Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati-Dayton) areas. The cities are pretty Democratic, but the suburbs more often than not remain GOP strongholds. Compare to Cleveland, whose suburbs have been trending more and more Democratic now for the past few decades.

[xchrom]

2. i think it's going to get like this

i think the consrvatives have ratcheted up the base for so many years -- that they have no where to go but confrontation.

[1monster]

3. Your kid got punched? If he didn't hit back (other than verbally), then

call the principal and tell him/her that if they don't issue some sort of appropriate punishment, you are going to file a police report and press charges against the bully for battery.

[Blue Gardener]

4. Sounds like you have a great kid

And you've instilled him with good values. I wonder how those brownshirts will feel about Bush* when they're getting shot at in 120 degree heat over in the Middle East?

[sventvkg]

5. I'd like to see a pug try that shit with me....

Good for your son.....:)

[flordehinojos]

6. Republicans ought to just really carry a sign saying,

THUGS FOR BUSH !
Plain and simple. That is who they are. At least those who support Bush.