Moving from the Red to the Blue

I’m goin’ back to Cali…

You know, I swore that if I made another blog again that I wouldn’t discuss politics, and if you take a peek at my War and Politics Category, you’ll notice a lot of my entries fall in there. There’s something very magnetic about this category. I just don’t know what it is. It may be that part of me that loves to fight.

But that’s besides the point.

If any of you have done an IP check on me, you’ll notice that I currently live in San Antonio, Texas. Yep, that’s right, sweetheart, I live in Bush Country! If you haven’t checked out San Antonio , you should someday. It’s a nice city aside from the wacky do do bird, soccer mom drivers and the flying cockroaches in the summer time. Even the birds can’t fly in this city. They are suicidal and will fly right into your car in slow motion. Many people will stroll calmly right in front of your car with a blank look on their faces saying “I DARE YOU!”.

Well, I guess you can say, I’m going from one city of nutty drivers to another. But in California, it’s different. They know how to drive, they are just plain rude and will bang on their horn with all their might if you don’t run over the pedestrians in front of you so that these business men can get to their stupid meetings on time.

Why are my husband and I moving back to CA, you ask? It’s an unfortunate reason. My father in law is in very bad health now, and we don’t have a choice but to return there. Prior to San Antonio, I lived in California for five years. I, however, was born and raised in Miami, Florida where I lived for the first 23 years of my life before moving to Japan for seven years. So, you can see, I don’t stay in one place too long. My mother’s starting to call me a Nomad.

Now, here’s where I finally get to the point of my entry. My regular readers and close people to me know that I have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to Political Extremism which is also the main theme of my political rantings. Well, I am going back to a city where most of my friends belong to the Loony Left Club. I don’t look forward to this. Don’t get me wrong. I love my friends. They are good people. However, their political ideology grabs my skin in ways that you can never imagine.

Let me give you an example. When the war began in Iraq and our men went over there, I sent out a mass mailing to almost everyone in my address book to support our troops. I will NEVER do something like this again! I got one reply from a Leftist Whackjob Wanker that I will never forget. His wife apologized for him at the time, but continued on about how our soldiers are bad people. It’s these comments that make my husband and I outraged and a little bit more than angry, to say the least. Granted, I’m not in support of this war, but our troops should never, ever be defined as criminals by anybody! I’m even pissed all over again typing this.

On top of that, I heard over and over again from those living in CA from other countries nothing but complaints about the U.S. They had been judging the U.S. solely on their experiences in California. They conveniently forget how large the U.S. is. You want to hear something funny? One of my friends who went back to her country said she was much happier in her own country because of the nature, green grass, and farm land.

Look, I understand these people have complaints that need to be expressed, but what I only wish (and this will probably never happen) is that they talk about this out of the presence of ANOTHER AMERICAN! There is nothing that pisses me off more.

Have any of you seen this picture before? (Please click the thumbnail to view it’s entirety.)

When I first read the above literature, it made me angry. Now, I can appreciate it. And I can also see the humor in it — which is what it’s intended purpose is anyway — to be funny. But seriously, though, there are actually people like this in real life. It’s scary. It also reminds me of one of my all time favorite expressions:

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”
–Theodore Isaac Rubin

And another one:

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
–Bertrand Russell

It’s as simple as that, extremists whether they be political or religious extremists, simply do not think.

I saw a comment relating to people like me in the Wittenberg Gate Blog that I’d like to share:

It is always nice to be reminded that there are still thinking liberals out there whose opinions are the result of their own thoughts and convictions as opposed to getting their talking points from NPR and blindly supporting whatever is endorsed by mainstream liberal dogma.

Posted by: Ri | March 26, 2005 01:30 PM

Speaking of Extremism, have you ever been to Lina’s Blog, The World and Everything in it ? If you haven’t been to that blog yet, you better get your little tush over there NOW! There are a lot of excellent writers in Cyberspace. I would say Lina’s in the top ten if not number one! She’s less emotional and much more logical than I am. But generally speaking, she says everything that I want to say except, she’s much better at saying it.

One of her greatest hits, in my opinion is Things and People that Make Me Want to Turn Republican. You know, there are things and people that make me want to turn Republican too. I’ve been saying all along that I’m a Liberal. But my husband swears I’m an Independent. Now, some of you may believe it’s either black or white. Can there be some gray?

Another fantastic entry written by Lina is To the Extremists on Both Sides. You should check that out too.

Well, in just two or so more weeks, I will be moving from a Radical Republican city to a Radical Left one. I sure will have much to talk about then. I will be able to share with ya’ll all the latest brands, shapes, and flavors of Tofu that are out there in CA. But when you start making fun of traditional Japanese Tofu, that’s where I’ll draw the line!

Nothing comes between me and my Japanese Cuisine!!