Skooz Good rant. I think about this all of the time. I, too , am an avid fisherman, and my lures are important, however, i spend much time planning how to deal with the PETA freaks when they try to take away my Daiwa.
That being said, I watch in amazement, as my politically ignorant in-laws stumble through life, not knowing that they are unwitting accomplices to the liberal agenda. Hell, they dont even know what the liberal agenda is, which makes them accomplices.
My wife is starting to come around, through gentle, yet relentless thought-provoking questions and comments from me. Occasionally, I slip, and rant for a while on the "liberal pukes", but for the most part, she is becoming "Un-PC" The deprogramming is having an effect.
My in-laws in general, though, have made verbal agreements amongst themselves, not to bring up politics in my presence. A sad commentary.
Stay well
A fellow phishphreak will understand this. I caught myself yesterday bemoaning the fact that I had left my radio headset at the hotel as I gazed out at a Texas Gulf wading grounds I had never explored before. I mentally slapped myself as I finished my preparations next to my 4-wheel drive parked on the beach ten feet from the lapping waves. By the time I was a mile or so out into the waist deep water stalking my usually unconqerable prey .... I was no longer thinking about 'current events' . Ah to be alive again if for only a few hours.