Friendly Neighborhood Liberals
We’ve all met ‘em, and barely lived to tell the tale:
From a former Hill mom happy to be back home:
Kathryn, that picture is nothing new to the few Republican families who live on Capitol Hill. I can tell you true horror stories about the welcoming liberals who live up there. A few years back on Halloween one house had a sign up that said “No Candy for Little Republicans.” I once made the mistake of letting my two kids wear “W” shirts I picked up at the 2004 convention. The “W” shirt was a superman shirt but instead of an S in the middle there was a W. My boys loved them since they thought it was Superman. I thought it was pretty subtle. Not for the women at the park. We were accosted by fellow Moms. Insults were thrown not only at my little ones but at me and my parenting abilities.
My most favorite was when our car was bumper stickered! Someone actually went into our alley, into our driveway and placed anti-Republican bumper stickers ON our car. We didn’t have any pro-Republican signs up so I have to assume it was one of our very kind neighbors who actually knew us.
Trashing personal property, abusing children, incomprehensible rudeness—it’s only because they care about people so much. When they stone us, as in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, I’m sure they’ll be singing Kumbaya.
BTW, I am generally troubled by our Category creep, as the number of Categories in the right hand column grows and grows. But as you can see, I needed quite a few of them for this post.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 1, 2009 @ 9:33 am
I think that anyone with a conservative view living in the northeast or northern California, Chicago, etc., the very liberal parts of the country, has run into situations like those described in the post. And the most interesting aspect of it isn’t so much that our friends and neighbors profess tolerance of all but those who think differently; it is that most of them make their living directly off the capitalist system that they so despise. They hate “The Insurance Industry” but work in an insurance company, pay the bills, save for college, etc. The cognitive dissonance never disturbs them at all.
- Aggie