Tea Party leader says anti-gay bullying is ‘healthy peer pressure’

Okiebug61 · 07-09-2011, 06:50 PM

The big message for me is how important it is for us to vote on our local level. These crazy people come from small beginnings. IE: Palin UGGHHHH vote vote vote

AtLast · 07-10-2011, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Ebon

I don't understand how they are not a joke like the Fred Phelps gang.

I know, yet they have positioned themselves very powerfully! No joke.

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Originally Posted by Okiebug61

The big message for me is how important it is for us to vote on our local level. These crazy people come from small beginnings. IE: Palin UGGHHHH vote vote vote

And be pro-active in stopping the very real and nationwide attempts at voter suppression and interference with voter registration. This is a serious situation.

I so agree with you. Local elections have actually become more important to me than the big ones (yes, I vote in all of them)- I just feel like can make a difference. I have volunteered for campaigns since I was in college (a millennia ago) and feel that the local ones give me the most satisfaction because I can see the result right in front of me.

I know how frustrating it gets seeing people like Bachmann gaining in polls and being able to bring in troves of money to "causes" and political policies that most of us here find so very wrong- so frustrating there have been many times I have though "Why the hell even vote." But, somehow I get the energy going to participate in this democracy, yet it is the smaller, closer kinds of elections of things like ballot measures that usually get me back to involvement.

I think a lot about the "wins" that do come along that really are due to grass roots efforts and it does make a difference.

It is just so damn hard to look at what is going on right now in Congress and at the "actors" and keep going. With the effects of the recession and what looks like a total disconnect among our politicians in DC (some are also Democrats) with what "common" people are going through, I do keep thinking that we have got to make much more noise. We really can't sit back and allow organizations such as the tea Party continue to exert such power over our politicians. We really can't.

You bet, get involved locally!

iamkeri1 · 07-10-2011, 01:24 PM

ALH
Most Democracies have a "labor" party of some kind or another. I think we could have the basis of a good third party if Unions (and other laborers) would unite behind the plan. I think a government where legislators were forced to make coalitions would improve things.
Smooches,
Keri

iamkeri1 · 07-10-2011, 01:44 PM

My wish (goal) foir the speakers of anti-queer hate is that people begin to see them as the hate mongering, crime soliciting, intelligence lacking, anti-Christian (anti most religion.) felons that they are. I want them to fear revealing their beliefs with the same life altering intensity that we experienced until just a few years ago. I want them to be scorned and mocked in public. I want signs to be posted in front of their homes listing their misdeeds. I want them to be banned from their churches, kicked out of their housing and fired from their jobs, because they are truly "an abomination unto the lord."

And finally I would like to see them sentenced to lengthy stays in one of those wonderful privately run prisons they also support so enthusiastically, and be subject to the abuses that frequently occur in these institutions.

I guess you could say I"m pissed!

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iamkeri1 Member How Do You Identify?: femme woman Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: solo Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Florida Posts: 905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 302 Thanked 2,153 Times in 659 Posts Rep Power: 16642921	ALH Most Democracies have a "labor" party of some kind or another. I think we could have the basis of a good third party if Unions (and other laborers) would unite behind the plan. I think a government where legislators were forced to make coalitions would improve things. Smooches, Keri

07-10-2011, 01:44 PM	#4
iamkeri1 Member How Do You Identify?: femme woman Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: solo Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Florida Posts: 905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 302 Thanked 2,153 Times in 659 Posts Rep Power: 16642921	My wish (goal) foir the speakers of anti-queer hate is that people begin to see them as the hate mongering, crime soliciting, intelligence lacking, anti-Christian (anti most religion.) felons that they are. I want them to fear revealing their beliefs with the same life altering intensity that we experienced until just a few years ago. I want them to be scorned and mocked in public. I want signs to be posted in front of their homes listing their misdeeds. I want them to be banned from their churches, kicked out of their housing and fired from their jobs, because they are truly "an abomination unto the lord." And finally I would like to see them sentenced to lengthy stays in one of those wonderful privately run prisons they also support so enthusiastically, and be subject to the abuses that frequently occur in these institutions. I guess you could say I"m pissed!