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That, Sir, pretty much sums it up, as near as I can tell.

We live in a Coastal Community here in Maine, which is systematicly being taken over by liberal elitist "Yuppies" who swarm in from the cities in their BMW's, Mercedes, and Volvos (for such Environmentalists, it's amazing how many of them toot around in big SUVs as well) move in, and immediately take over. Soon the School Board, Town Counsel, and every Committee in town is full of and controlled by them. Taxes go up to where the local working or retired people can't afford to live in their own homes anymore and get evicted to some remote refugee swamp inland, and the Yups start dictating to the survivors how we are to live.

No wonder Maine is the highest taxed State in the Union!

Any wonder why we are being deluged with thousands of ROP Somali (as well as other ROP culture) "Refugees"? They'd like US to start "tolerating" a lifestyle like Afghanis had under the Talliban - only THEY (the libs) would be the "Boss" class, of course.

We are well aware of how much these 2-faced reptiles care about "Human Rights" once they get the power they lust for!

Thanks for the reminder.

I lived in LA from 72-75, Portland 75-82, and Spokane 98-02. Spokane is majority Republican but unfortunately on the wrong side of the Washington-Idaho state line. I was politically active in Oregon a generation ago. At the time, it was a swing state, modestly Republican. The Democrats were blue collar. They cared about jobs. Fast forward a generation. Western Washington and Oregon are nut country. The Governor of Washington drove the state's largest private employer for 75 years, Boeing, out of the state. Mainstream Democrats supported breaching the dams, which means cutting a hole to drain the reservoir, eliminating recreation, electric power generation, navigation and irrigation and leaving an unsightly slab of concrete. The first time I heard what it is, somebody had to explain it to me. The cities are overrun with Al Qaeda. The Mayor of Portland was the only magistrate in the country not to cooperate with the FBI following 9-11. A principal Al Qaeda leader was an intern in her office. It's a different country. It's not a country I want to live in. It's growing up in the Austro-Hungarian empire and finding oneself living in Nazi Germany. It's hateful and frightening.

The first time I heard of the women's movement I thought it was a joke. The first time I heard of the animal rights movement I thought it was a joke. The first time I heard gay marriage proposed, I thought it would go nowhere. Now I know. The agenda is to repress every value I treasure and impose through coercion every value that is a religious sacrilege or a negation of the American way.

I'm convinced Americans of traditional values have to organize to impose every new encroachment, every removal of a nativity scene from a public space, every new politically correct idea. A colleague pointed out the damage the media -- FOX entertainment programming in particular -- is having on the culture.

Hey, I was out in Ouray, Colorado 15 years ago. I was watching Monday night football in one of the two bars in town. I was talking to a guy who said he raised cattle on his family ranch but he couldn’t afford to live there anymore. I asked him why. He said he made about 30k per year but was told his land made him a millionaire and he couldn’t afford the taxes. He said everyone in town was dog tired, dirt poor working class but yuppies from California had moved out and started “improving” things that the locals couldn’t afford. Paving age old dirt roads to nowhere, computers and councilors in schools, etc.

The next day I was driving down a dirt road and in the distance I saw a beautiful architectural digest log home mansion. I talked to a couple on the road and they said the house was theirs. They were a youngish retired teacher couple form San Diego. They said they were escaping California.

They are everywhere.