A recent encounter with a neighbor.

[Cheap_Trick]

I live on a cul-de-sac, and at election time I could tell by the number of mccain/palin signs that I was the only Democrat on the street. The morning after the election, my Obama yard sign was gone but my Slattery sign was still there. Sore fucking losers! Our mailboxes are on the corner. On Wednesday, I stopped on the way home to get the mail. There was a car already stopped there, the passenger was getting their mail. The woman was probably in her late 70's at least. I then noticed in the back window of the car was an "Obama '08" bumper sticker. I said to her "Love your sticker." She said, "Oh thank you. I'm so proud I voted for him. We have a picture of him in our living room." And I told her, "Thank YOU. I thought I was the only Democrat on the block. Nice to know there's another. I think we're the only ones." She just kind of rolled her eyes and said "I know."

Nice to know I'm not alone in enemy territory.






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[wryter2000]

1. I'm glad you have an ally

:hi:

[Subdivisions]

2. I'm glad you're not alone. Maybe now you won't have to move. n/t

[madmax]

3. My next door neighbor

doesn't speak to me since the election. Not after I put my Obama sign in my yard. Fuck'em lol.

[callous taoboy]

4. You're lucky you only got your sign ripped off:

My neighbor got in my face and called me a "Goddamned liberal." I thought he was going to blow a gasket.

[gratuitous]

5. So the number of right-thinking people on your block has doubled

Good start. Double it again.

[onethatcares]

6. I asked a person at the grocery store about here Obama/Biden sticker

I think she thought I was gonna go hopey/dopey on her. The look of relief on her face when I said I was still counting on him to try to change years of clusterfarks brought a smile to me. She didn't hang out to discuss, so I gave her a thumbs up and a keep the faith comment.

[bigwillq]

7. K and R

Good post. Thanks for sharing.

[Scuba]

8. So why are Democrats afraid to put out signs?

[Cheap_Trick]

10. She very well could have.

She lives at the end of the cul-de-sac and I never need to go that far. Mine was the only one that I saw.

[OutNow]

9. Yard signs are important

I lived in a very Republican section of a very Republican county in Texas. I had 5 or 6 Stop The War in Iraq signs stolen from my front yard until I wired one to a live oak tree. I always put out Democratic candidate signs, even one for Lloyd Doggett who wasn't even in my district but is such a good progressive I had to show my support.

Why bother? Because at least a dozen times different people who walked by or drove by the house stopped and told me how appreciative they were to know that they weren't the only liberal or the only one against the war in the neighborhood. The constant right wing offensive is intended to scare us from speaking out and to isolate us from the body politic. And it will work unless we show our support for the good guys.