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Blue in a red state: Learning to confront, conform to or navigate your neighbors’ right-wing reality
Salon ^ | Feb 27 2016 | Salon

Posted on 02/27/2016 10:54:21 PM PST by WilliamIII

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To: WilliamIII

Typical Solon, from the article: “Byron doesn’t like to stir up any controversy in his bar but found he had to say something as regulars muttered racial slurs.”

Literally ALL the racial slurs I hear are from LIBERALS. Whether from pastie white guys, native Americans, latinos or blacks, in my experience, it has always been a liberal who spews that venom.


21 posted on 02/28/2016 1:15:36 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: WilliamIII
He brings his partner to family dinners but has never actually said to his conservative sister that he’s gay.

His sex partner?

His business partner?

Salon has to use euphemisms because what they are selling STILL doesn't fly with conventional society.

22 posted on 02/28/2016 2:02:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: maine-iac7

The liberal mantra is ‘politicize everything’. It was true in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s...

Attack the patriarchy, the institutions of marriage, organized religion, the history of this country...

and it is all over the media every day. I opted out of the media in 2008 when my tv died. I no longer have to endure tv ads and talk/guest/characters that spit on my politics every day.

And now there are ‘highlights’ from NBC on gas pumps when I fill up. “You will be assimilated!” “Gooble gobble, one of us!”


23 posted on 02/28/2016 2:10:23 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I have similar neighbors. They’re really whack jobs.
Were I of the same caliber I’d report them for property tax fraud. They claim homestead exemption in the name of the owner who doesn’t live there.. That’s illegal here in GA.


24 posted on 02/28/2016 2:12:11 AM PST by Original Lurker
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To: WilliamIII

Big deal. In Oregon if you put a Republican bumper sticker on your car, your vehicle gets the tires slashed or it gets keyed.

So dont give me the BS whine that conservatives persecute leftists.


25 posted on 02/28/2016 2:24:54 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: Lopeover

I was just getting ready to post this, but wanted to scroll down to see if anyone else would mention it. In my case, it’s Washington state, but the sentiment is the same. Liberal bumperstickers all over the place. Very, very few Conservative. I know they’re up here because I know a few myself. We’re just smart and understand the value of our property enough to not put it at risk by using it to announce our political preferences. Damn shame, too. The types of people who’d vandalize your car for having a conservative sticker are the very same who howl about their free speech rights getting trampled on.


26 posted on 02/28/2016 2:59:09 AM PST by jonrd463
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To: Sivad

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.”
—David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader


27 posted on 02/28/2016 3:18:23 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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To: WilliamIII

And progressives wonder why normal people consider them to be two faced liers.


28 posted on 02/28/2016 3:34:40 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: WilliamIII
Blue in a Red State

Blue in a red state? The writer ought to try being a conservative black in a blue state. Or anywhere. Talk about a minority!

29 posted on 02/28/2016 4:39:46 AM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Talisker

Spot on.


30 posted on 02/28/2016 4:56:03 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: WilliamIII

So, how do people who are not blue do in blue states?

Just today there is a news item from liberal dominated Anaheim California. A small group was planning a peaceful, legal demonstration, when they were savagely attacked by a leftist lynch mob that charged them while they were unloading their car.

The mob started by throwing things and clubbing them with sections of 2x4 and other weapons, then knocked down and brutally stomped one of them. Another pulled a knife to defend himself, and stabbed three of the attackers before they backed off. He has been arrested. Another used a flagpole to fend them off. Others fled the scene before they could be injured or killed by the mob.

The punchline? The peaceful protesters were KKK.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-klan-rally-in-anaheim-erupts-in-violence-one-man-stabbed-20160227-story.html


31 posted on 02/28/2016 5:00:32 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: digger48

Proper reply to such an asinine meddler is: “MIND YOUR OWN DAM BIDNESS!!”


32 posted on 02/28/2016 5:04:59 AM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: a fool in paradise

His butt partner. His schlong partner. His limp-wrist, light-loafer, pud-gumming, colon-spelunking partner.


33 posted on 02/28/2016 5:11:23 AM PST by IronJack
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To: JennysCool

In America, you can leave if you are uncomfortable. It’s your choice.


34 posted on 02/28/2016 5:19:06 AM PST by D Rider
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To: Talisker

Very true.


35 posted on 02/28/2016 5:23:55 AM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: WilliamIII
has two Facebook accounts. One reflects her liberal politics; the other is for acquaintances and family members to whom Lisa shows only her cat photos.

Salon is saluting duplicity. If it were not for double standards, the Left would not have any standards.

36 posted on 02/28/2016 5:37:43 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: WilliamIII

And why do they live in conservative areas?

Because they love to be humiliated.

No because they are tolerated, for the dumb masses they are


37 posted on 02/28/2016 5:39:45 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: WilliamIII

In my experience, this clown has it mostly backwards.

I’ve got relatives who are head-up-the-anal-cavity liberal (great people otherwise) in a our totally blue state who won’t bring up politics around me because they know they’ll get pushback.

And I once spent a year in Manhattan; ate lunch most days with a group of maybe 6 to 8 youngsters (20-somethings) who were all uniformly libs (if relatively naive) and we talked politics every chance we got - apparently they’re comfortable when the odds are at least 6 to 1, even if they’re taking incoming. Never saw people more flabbergasted then when they saw the presidential election results in 1984. Apparently I was the only one they knew who voted Reagan.

Now none of those kids had any power over me. Had that been the case, I mostly would’ve kept my mouth shut - in my experience, there are no more vindictive little pr*cks than libs who’ve been challenged in their beliefs.


38 posted on 02/28/2016 5:41:38 AM PST by Stosh
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To: IronJack

I’m not gay, butt my boyfriend is.

This is insane.


39 posted on 02/28/2016 5:46:38 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

She must be living or working in a rare red town in a blue state which Massachusetts is a blue state. More likely the team will show up because of a “Trump” or “Hillary for prison 2016” bumper sticker then a Blarney Sanders, Elisabeth Warren or some other dem sticker.


40 posted on 02/28/2016 5:56:04 AM PST by This I Wonder32460
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