Screw It, I'm Staying
This slimebag liberal is gonna stay and fight

November 8 2004
Counterbias.com
Steve Horowitz

Before the election, I had taken to trolling at conservative forums and blogs. (See "Escape from the Planet of the Apes"). It was an instructive, if often frightening, experience. Not having been a member of the Klan or the American Nazi party, I had never encountered such open sewers of stewing hatred and blind rage.

The amusing thing about it (well, it was amusing before Nov. 2) was how these hateful, raging malcontents would flood their forums with post after post saying how hateful and filled with rage we "dummocrats" and slimebag liberals are.

Whenever I would post something -- and I would try to stick to news articles that showed their views might not match the facts -- they would leap on me like snarling, rabid dingos, epithets spewing.

I was a communist; a coward; an appeaser; a coward; a fag; a bin Laden supporter, if not an active terrorist; an anti-American cog in the liberal media conspiracy, irrationally obsessed with bringing down a man of compassion, integrity, principle and resolve.

Now these lunatics have gotten their way. And boy, you can be sure they're reveling in it. Half of America and the rest of the world are appalled at another four years of the Yellow Rogue of Texas (thanks for that one to SF Gate columnist Mark Morford), and they couldn't be happier.

It's enough to turn your stomach. And make you want to leave the country.

Already, Canada's immigration web site has been flooded with American requests for information. My friends talk -- half-jokingly? one-third jokingly? -- about pooling assets for a villa in Spain. And that old idea I had, that a dark, hairy Semite might be a highly desirable novelty to the blond beauties of Sweden, clouds my vision as I confront yet another progressive e-newsletter urging me not to give up hope.

My personal feeling is that a slight majority of this country craves a Christian Taliban. And with the gains Republicans made last Tuesday, they might get it.

I also think we've gotten exactly what we deserve. Because of the neglect of civics, social studies, and American history in our schools -- and I don't blame NCLB for this -- the idea of "patriotism" has been hijacked by people who have absolutely no conception of what patriotism entails, or what it is about America that merits it.

These people now learn about America in church, and think their kids should learn church things in school. They rant about the Constitution protecting their right to own AKs, or needing amending because of the danger from same-sex weddings, but they don't understand or respect the Constitution. They don't know how the men who wrote it agonized over the limits of executive power and personal freedoms, the role of the judiciary, the separation of church and state, the right to dissent, the waging of war.

And now, with the encouragement of Christian mullahs and Rupert Murdoch, these self-righteous, close-minded ignoramuses think that objecting to an undeclared, pre-emptive war is anti-American; that "activist" judges imperil the common good when they rule against legal discrimination; and that God speaks through George W. Bush. And they have the rest of us contemplating emigration.

Not this slimebag liberal. I'm going to stay and fight. I'm going to antagonize the "values" fascists at every opportunity. And confront their ignorance and hate with facts and reason. Because I'm the patriot. I've served my country in uniform. I've studied -- and still study -- our history, and our Constitution, and how they've guided each other. I've worked hard to be an informed citizen. And I will not stand by while bullying intellectual weaklings, whose idea of patriotism is an "I'm proud to be an American" bumper sticker, gloat about the triumph of God's will.

I'm going to keep fighting for America, the way patriots always have. My blog, my words will be my weapon. Oh no, you deluded sociopaths. You're not going to chase me from my own country.

Those hot Swedish blonds will never know what they're missing.