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Edwird -> Republicans taking pride in their anus (3/14/2017 4:56:52 AM)
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And wanting to show it in public.
I remember my oldest sister telling us about three kids (in a class of 40 second graders) wearing a 'Goldwater for President' button even though the school prohibited political or any other buttons. Their parents absolutely knew this yet sent their 7-8 yr. old child into the fray. True courage from mom and dad, right? Belligerence has it's foot forward by way of chickenshit steps, always.
My grand aunt dies ~ the time of Clinton/Dole election. She was the first woman elected Democratic Chair in her town (1964) and was not far from Dem leader of S, Carolina. She already knew I wasn't going to go that route and she actually encouraged me to bang their heads from some other angle.
So anyway this asshole local Republican chairman shows up at her wake wearing a big Dole button, aggressively (and I emphasize that last, as he certainly did) hand pumping and saying "sorry for your loss," making sure his Dole button was front and center all the while.
What. A. Fucking. Asshole.
He's welcome to show up with out the Dole button but he's too stupid to figure it out. Or too much of a Republican. Either way.
Her surviving husband and a few of his and her brothers took him outside and said "thank you so much for coming," with hand on shoulder alone conveying the underlying message that 'there's a bunch of nephews here wanna whoup your ass, son.'
Boy was he right. Only Macon Ga. and Anderson SC basic notion of good manners kept that idiot from going to the hospital that day, only out of respect to the elders. Decent manners which such notion as has eluded Republicans from day one, and as they will ever be thus ignorant of.
The Charlotte and Atlanta relatives just gritted their teeth, would have just stomped the bastard yesterday (especially my next youngest sister, I think that's the first foaming of mouth from a human I've seen), but I think it was instructive to see how things could work out otherwise. It's funny how you keep yourself from violence by way of holding someone else back more eager than you for/from that prospect.
My grand uncle was a smoothie, and my grand aunt absolutely had to be that in order to invade the 'good old boy's club' in SC in 1964, just as she had to 'convey her meaning' all the while. It was hard to confront her unless you had every last duck in a row, but even then . . . Somebody had to deal with all this desegregation crap, and they didn't want it to be them. She had a plan in hand, put it through by her will, and she kept getting re-elected party chair until the end, even years after all the messy stuff was done.
My heroes!
So no, I don't worry about the Republican assholes. It's just in their nature to be that way, it's not like they can help it.
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