How Was Your Memorial Day?

I marched in a local parade with the voting group to which I belong and got called a Communist and an abettor of "the terrorists"  by a fellow member of the group.   So that was fun.  He's one of those hysterical Republicans so afraid of the invisible enemies out to destroy "our way of life" that he sees nothing wrong with a return to the Alien and Sedition Acts because, he told me, "desperate times call for desperate measures."   He's a very original thinker.

"When I hear that liberal, Communist stuff starting up," he said. "I shut it down."  His secondary defense for his boorish behavior, beyond his heroic support for the destruction of the Constitution, was that there were children present.  One of them was mine.  I guess as the daughter of a traitor, she didn't deserve any consideration.

I'm tired of being called a Communist by people too stupid to know what the word means and too cruel to consider what it implies these days.   I have a neighbor who routinely refers to me as the "neighborhood Communist" because I vote for Democrats.  This morning's  hysteria came about a month after I was with an acquaintance at a playground and she started telling me about the current war on Christianity going on in the United States. She held up the school's holiday sing as an example.  Lyrics were rewritten to exclude the word "Jesus."  I told her that some of my Jewish friends have told me that they feel uncomfortable having their kids singing about Jesus.  She said, well my kids sing about Hannukah, they can sing about Jesus.  I reminded her that they sing about Christmas.   That wasn't enough for her.  I said that there's some history there that's painful for Jewish people, you know, the Holocaust and the role of the Vatican in it.  Stories of Jews being told that if they'd convert, they would be spared.  Stories spread that they were screaming their conversions as they died.  Painful stuff.

"Oh, the Holocaust," she said.  "That's not true about the Vatican.  And the Church had to take that position anyway to fight against Communism, which is the real evil."   That  began a very strange rant that wandered through Communism, godlessness, the war on Christianity, Guantanamo, immigration, Mexicans, terrorism and ended with "those Jews were Commies."   Then because I wouldn't agree that Marx (not Stalin, not Mao, not Hitler, not any Roman emperor) was history's greatest monster, she got around to calling me a Communist.  She wasn't like the asshole from today, who was out to shut me down.   She used a sadder, sort of I'll-pray-for-you voice.   In ancient times she would have reserved the tone for conversations with lepers. 

In a few days we'll have these fires stoked further with the release of Coulter's latest screed:

* Hardcover: 320 pages

* Publisher: Crown Forum (June 6, 2006)

Book Description
GODLESS is the most explosive book yet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Coulter. In this completely original and thoroughly controversial work, Coulter writes, "Liberals love to boast that they are not `religious,' which is what one would
expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the
attributes of what is generally known as `religion.' "

GODLESS throws open the doors of the "Church of Liberalism."

Sound familiar?  I'm tired of all this shit.

UPDATE:  Hello Wonketters.   Thank you.  Come again!

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