Posted on 02/05/2017 11:11:10 AM PST by thecodont
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Some East Bay conservatives say they live a secret life. They can never tell anyone what they really feel like in fear of their safety.
Robert Ward is coming out conservative, but in a place he says is risky for those who share his beliefs.
“If you witness what happened in Berkeley, actually they are so violent on top of it. I mean being a conservative in the Bay Area is like being a heretic,” says Ward. “You lead a double life. You can never tell your friends and co-workers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
>>Because we’d be wasting a lot of ammo if we didn’t and they’re not worth wasting ammo on...
Because those paper targets we practice on every week are the only legitimate use of ammo??
Makes a lot of sense.
Keep taking it.
One might add at the same time we had continuous prohibition of Sodomy from very early on, with the death penalty as punishment. In the mid eighteen hundreds the death penalty was done away with and it became a felony with prison time at hard labor for punishment until latter part of the 20th Century when the Supreme Court in a 2003 decision Lawrence v Texas struck down the same sex sodomy law and we have had a virtual free for all ever since
The tailgate of my pickup has magnets sporting both parts of my tagline, soon to be joined by a new one.
Rainbow background with the words
CELEBRATE
PERVERSITY
I’m in the Bay Area too. I have quite a few conservative friends. However, I’ve stopped posting anything political on facebook. I do watch what I say in public.
I’m also lucky that I work at my church.
I live in the Bay Area and all danger is accurate. Most who know me know my beliefs and I don’t care about it. Maybe because I grew up in New York where people always express their opinions. Most of these thugs are thugs. A little verbal push back and they run.
Which leads to the question of resistance to the resistance. Effective tactics for people in deep-blue states to use to counter the anti-Trump leftist resistance. Constraints: we are outnumbered. Law enforcement tends to be on the PC side. Property such as houses and cars are subject to attack.
Brother, I wish I could offer comfort.
The more the Dem’s screw up, the more they recognize their failings the worse they get.
They are mental.
Read this...Neural correlates of maintaining one’s political beliefs in the face of counterevidence
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep39589
Committees of Correspondence.....
Our silence confuses them. To this day they do not understand why they lost. They confuse our lack of childish reaction with non-existence.
Silent no more.
“The obvious question that begs to be asked is - why do we take it??”
Did you miss out in the events of 2016?
All three branches of government taken. Supreme Court protected.
If that’s taking it, I’ll take it.
Hmmm... Let me think. Where would a person get such a “device”? :)
When I lived in the Bay area I lived and worked mostly in The City and on the Peninsula. Most of my friends were from Santa Clara or points south. You never talked about your political beliefs with the people you work with. It could cost you your job.
“The obvious question that begs to be asked is - why do we take it??
We’re supposedly the gun loving tough guys, yet we act like wimps.
Where are our protests? We’re letting Trump fight this war all alone. Why are they organized and we’re not?”
These are million dollar questions. I’ve said for years that conservatism is the lazy man’s political philosophy. Where we got the idea that listing to AM talk radio and buying “more ammo” was all you needed to do to have “participated”.
Where you sit on your ass and look at the left protesting something and dismiss your own lack of activism as “Well I have a job”, as if everyone on the left is unemployed.
Where you can win an election, but then you kick back and treat the aftermath like a “fun” show to watch and not a thing that requires constant diligence and participation, only to then scream and yell about the “wimps” and RINOs responding to the leftist protestors that are in their face and not just doing what you want when you dont bother to pick up a phone, show up, or anything else.
Where too many on our side is expecting Trump to just magically make things happen, while the left controls the street and makes hell all over, and too many here just shakes their fists at the computer screen.
And despite the lack of ability to even just show up and show support for the guy that is working his ass off, people here actually think they are going to be in an actual shooting war! Like if marching with a cardboard sign is too hard, how is anyone here going to manage to go out into a warzone?
The right needs to start taking this stuff far more seriously and give up some of that leisure time to make sure our voices are heard.
I believe it. My sister teaches HS science in San Leandro. She just moved there last year from Houston following her husband who landed a job in the Bay area. A total lib nazi freak zone, according to her description.
Many of us have jobs and lives and no time for protest.
The army of the left is an army of good-for-nothings and lay-abouts, rising up out of their parents’ basements looking for a riotous good time.
I suppose among the tech people, politics of any flavor is not a topic for discussion (money & culture, yes, but not politics). Among the nonprofit sector, politics would be discussed, but only politics of the left and far-left with any degree of approval or favor. Those of moderate to conservative views would keep silent.
Allegedly founded on tolerance and nonviolence, the left has now become the driving force for hate and violence.
That’s our problem - we win an election and think we won the war. The left laughs us, to them losing an election is only the beginning of the fight, as they are demonstrating every day. Look what winning the Senate got us last time.
You don’t understand the power of propaganda and ACTIVISM - they have all the weapons in that war and apparently you’re quite happy to keep taking it.
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