Fearing the midterm elections

For the most, I am used to them; but there is this one nutjob who has been on my ass for several years because I took pictures of his wife's car after she hit a neighbor head on while she was driving reckless on the wrong side of the road. I gave them to the couple she hit. He's now a member of Oath Keepers and is doing everything he can to run me out of the neighborhood. And I'm not the only one who is having problems with him.

Even despite neighborhood politics, which can be quite contentious, I've lived in peace with everybody else around here for 23 years. I'm now 62, my home is paid for and this is where I've chosen to live out the rest of my life, and I will. I'm not going to pick up my entire life and move because one asshole has a hardon for me and wants to relive his glory days in the Marines and impose his lifestyle on everyone else.

I made it through the Nixon years without compromising my lifestyle or principals and I'll get through this. Bullies only get bigger and meaner when no one stands up to them. And, btw, I'm not alone, I have neighbors who watch out for me.

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I don't go right or left, intentionally. I just do what I need to do. Read my last post. Plus the cops do not patrol this neighborhood, its to rough a terrain for their vehicles. If I had to call them, their response time is 30 minutes to an hour.

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It's quite evident that you have absolutely no understanding of current American politics.

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You google too much...Bob is a neighbor and a good friend, not famous at all, just a "good ol boy."

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well, that's not exactly low profile



but it is good citizenship, the kind oathcreepers will never understand . . .

 

I'm not a "low profile" kinda guy. The law does not require it and my conscience often does not allow it. I am pretty liberal, but growing up in the south I learned the value of self defense. I will turn the other cheek, once, slap it a second time and I'll take off the arm that did it. That's the only way to survive here. I'm just an old hippie trying to survive among a pack of pit bulls. I've already outlived most of my conservative friends and enemies who were my age. I am liberal, but not a pacifist.

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Its going to be AWESOME!!!!!!!!

By the way, please explain how the founding principles of America are "extremist" and "screwball" because that is what the Tea Party represent. I don't understand why there is all this animosity in America for America.

God I miss Bush, those were the good old days before the libs took over congress and messed everything up. Remember 2005 how good things were?

 

Well done, Jack, about the owning your own land, standing up for yourself, and your rights. And well done for being armed. I salute you for that. But, I have a question; Do you seriously feel threatened, though? By whom? So you're a liberal and an atheist in the middle of nowhere (I don't mean that as an insult, but you are.) in the south. So what? I find it odd that your way of life would be threatened. But then I don't really know rednecks, and I wouldn't be threatened by them if I did know them. To me rednecks are a curiosity. I've always wanted to go to the Summer Redneck Games in East Berlin, GA.

I guess, when I think about it, I can see how you may feel threatened by the actions of small minded bigoted rednecks. However, The Tea Party I represent is all about being left alone and getting back to the original founding principles of America, and would be no threat to you, at all. I would be a libertarian, except FLA doesn't have open elections, and I want to vote against Democrats. I actually am rather liberal socially (Abortion, drugs, euthanasia, open minded about unique beliefs that I may think are weird. But I don't do politically correct.) But as you can tell already, fiscally conservative, and that is more important, to me. I can deal with marijuana being illegal and senators talking about the evils of masturbation if they will just leave the economy alone. However, I would prefer if they quit talking about all of it. Most of my liberal friends don't even know how conservative I am, cause we usually don't get into it.

 

The founding principles of America huh? So you would support getting rid of all those constitutional amendments Americans seem to value so much?

 

Yes, I do. Right wing extremists, like you seem to be. I've spent the past 2 days going through Oath Keepers and Tea Party blogs. The hatred in these groups is already causing violence.

Again, your Tea Party is inciting violence wherever it can.

I'm not the least worried about the Rednecks; again, it's the right wingnuts, and because the educational level is much lower down here, there are many more of them per square mile than in most other places.

From your own posts, it looks to me as though you don't know what those principals really are.

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This whole thing really began to hit me about a couple weeks ago. At first, I was just laughing it up at the whole silly tea party thing because I thought it was just a small group that didn't hold too much influence; I thought that it was just a reaction to the change of things. I didn't know how much support they have and how much hate they have for the president. I thought if anything, the tea party would cause the right to reform and turn libertarian out of necessity. But now I am seeing how the party is gaining a lot of momentum, fueled by the power of pure hatred and stupidity, and is racing towards taking over many seats in office... many of which have extreme views and may, as the OP points out, make things worse than when Bush was in office.

Glen Beck tonight was going on about how much he wants his viewers to watch the whole return to sanity rally with the intention to try to prove that the left has no scruples by turning everything into a joke. Glen, for what it's worth, has a brilliant and cunning mind, but too bad he is using it to dig into the consciousness and hatred of the crazies and directing it to this countries downfall. It seems he has taken a kind of 'noble persona' to appear as though a champion for values and truth while dissenters are not. He will morph to whatever persona to fit the changing tides...

What a total nightmare...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ery7RZ4tZ2Y"]YouTube - Alan Grayson: "If the President has a BLT tomorrow, the Republicans will try to ban bacon."

 

Good news is if you play a bet on the Dems holding the house in November and they actually do, you'll win a hell of a lot of money.

 

All I can say is everyone get off their asses in November and VOTE, its the only weapon we have to combat these assholes. Urge everyone you know to vote. If people get out and vote the tea baggers dont have a chance because it is a small movement with a big mouth and your vote counts as much as theirs.atriot:

 

Democrats are on the verge of losing motherfuckin Connecticut, Blumenthall and McMahon are now statistically tied in the last opinion poll. We're all screwed.

 

Well, you lost me at "I miss Bush", but I’ll try to compose myself and reply.

The stated purpose of the movement has been to stop what it views as wasteful government spending, excessive taxation, and strangulation of the economy through regulatory bureaucracies. But on tax day April 15, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stated "It's not really a grassroots movement. It's astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class."

I’m not categorizing all supporters of the Tea Party as extremists, but it has certainly attracted extremist elements. Racsim, anti-Muslim hysteria, anti-gay rights, not to mention comparing Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, have all infiltrated the movement.

Here’s some interesting reading:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/23/the_tea_party_movement_is_a_scam.html
http://www.uwmpost.com/2010/09/27/sinister-puppeteers-behind-%E2%80%9Ctea-party-movement%E2%80%9D/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/09/tea-party_movement

And 2005, you mean the year Hurricane Katrina hit and Bush responded like cold molasses? I guess if you don’t live in New Orleans it’s no big deal, and 2005 was still a couple years before the economy crashed under Dubya’s watch. But of course he had bigger things to deal with, like Iraq, a war he got us into under false pretenses (see WMD’s). Oh yeah, the Bush administration, those were the good old days. I miss him almost as much as I miss Richard Nixon.

 

Maybe we could take a page from the Teabag playbook. Call in a few death threats, smash a few windows, and call some of them niggers. That would at least give the Dems parody in the elections, right?

OH, and we need to get together our own militia to fight theirs and bring guns to the rallies, that will make us look as tough as them.

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*SIGH* We're fucked!

 

Obama took his 'socialist (his word)' mop and just muddied up everything. Maybe it's time to take a hose to the mess.

 

Well, my state ended up saving a few democrats in the house, but turned over 5 seats to the Republicans, electing a corrupt republican to the senate, and electing a republican governor over a total asshole democrat.

I voted with the primary interest of making sure said asshole was not my governor, and all the house dems I know and like kept their seats, so I'm pleased enough.
The only thing that disappoints me is the particular republican we elected to the senate.