This will be a very brief rant. I know I shouldn’t say anything at all, but I’ve got to have somewhere to let these feelings out.
I desperately need a strategy to avoid – or to respond to if I can’t avoid – the never-ending stream of knee-jerk, backwoods, proudly ignorant, gun-obsessed, closet-racist neighbors who berate me with anti-Obama (not unfocused – it’s specific) paranoia and hatred at every turn!
In line at the grocery store, in the classroom where I’m a sub, in every letter to the newspaper – at CHURCH, for goodness sake.
As they see it, we are only moments away from the day that the police begin breaking down doors to take away their guns (or at least their ammunition), close their churches, and force their daughters to have abortions and their sons to marry men.
Surely not everyone is this stupid? Surely they don’t think everyone agrees with them? Am I oversensitive? Why, oh why, do they have to be so loud and proud?
And why can’t I just ignore them?
I become so angry when I think of what kinds of people actually get to raise kids and vote, sometimes it leaves me nauseated.
I really can’t take this much longer. Suggestions are welcome.
