On the Avowed Left Coast, a Feeling of Being Left Out

The New York Times ^ | November 4, 2004 | DEAN E. MURPHY

[Stoat]

"My hygenist was whining to the dentist about the red map: "Are there REALLY that many Republicans?" "

They honestly have no idea, because they only socialize among themselves. They are profoundly uneducated, despite the degrees that they wave.

[Simmy2.5]

Now, if only they leave this country (like many people were threatening to do), sanity could return to the left coast!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The very way they express their political views tells me the same thing.

They think everyone agrees with them.

Shock!!!

They don't!

[SirLurkedalot]

LOL Here in Santa Cruz the mood is pretty somber.The lefties coming into work this morning looked like they'd been to a funeral. I'm being civil but I'm really dying to rub it in all their faces.

[Chemist_Geek]

They honestly have no idea, because they only socialize among themselves.

It's the Echo Chamber effect. We would do well to avoid falling victim to it.

[dk88]

Fighting the battle here with you compadre.
All I could say to the droopy assed losers was 'Hey, the sun came out (for the first time in a few weeks). It's truly a beautiful day.'

Heheheheh.

[marsh2]

I met with a subcommittee of a social service non-profit today. As I had written an endorsement for Bush in the newspaper, they all knew who I had supported. My assumptions about them all being Democrats was correct. The meeting was like a wake. They did perk up, though, when I told them that I recalled that the California Initiative to tax the rich to provide for mental health services has passed.

Our California County went 60.49% for Bush and only 37.59% for Kerry.

[Stoat]

"and promptly kiss the ground (and become staunch Republicans..."

The Cubans in Florida are among the most staunchly pro-American (and pro-Republican) groups that there is, precisely because they truly understand, oftentimes from horrific personal experience, exactly what the Left does when it gains complete power. The bougeous coffehouse Left would be vastly educated by speaking to these oftentimes brave people.

[Stoat]

"Of the six southern most counties along the Calif. Pacific coast, four voted Republican. San Diego, Orange, Ventura, San Luis Obispo. Lotsa beautiful miles, with good people. Two voted democrat: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara"

Fascinating breakdown; thank you for posting. I hadn't heard that one yet. It gives reason for having faith and hope for California (along with Ahnuld's election)

[Stoat]

"I felt left out too, but I voted for Bush! My coastal county (San Diego) went for Bush, and so did Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and many other noncoastal counties. Tis lonely out here..."

Stay strong and remember that you are not alone. Your vote does count, as does your presence in a state noted for voting to the Left of reality. Being on the right side of history is never easy, but know that your countrymen will appreciate it as well as the generations unborn.

[Stoat]

"No need to apologize. If we didn't live in these states it would only be worse"

Thanks very much; your kind words mean a lot :-)

[SirLurkedalot]

I love it. I really did'nt think I'd make out the front door at work without busting up this morning. But I almost (and I mean ALMOST) feel sorry for them. Their world is crumbling and they know it.

[dsc]

"BTW, I'm thinking of starting a non profit organization that will provide free "one way" airline tickets to the "lefties" who say they'll leave the country and renounce their U.S. citizenship. I think I'll call it, See 'Ya.org...what do you think?"

Skawoo that. Let'em get their own transportation, like Elian Gonzales' mother.

[johniegrad]

Upon entering the cafe, Mr. Schmaltz, who is Jewish, grabbed off the cafe's bookshelf "A Beggar in Jerusalem," by Elie Wiesel, and read it glumly over a bowl of vegetarian chili. "Something Jewish will do me good right now," he said.

Effin' idiot. You vote for the destruction of the Promised Land.

[GOP_Proud]

< "I am depressed, but I am also just really angry at the rest of the country's ignorance," Ms. Sloan said. >

We could, possibly, begin having a useful dialog if you would just stop calling us ignorant for voting for Bush. Of course, that's not going to happen.

[chilepepper]

A vegetarian cafe for socialist revolutionary bohemian types?

adolph hitler would feel right at home as it would remind him of his years in vienna...

[small_l_libertarian]

(SNIP)

He called a friend and headed straight to the Red and Black Cafe, an all-organic, wheat-free, vegetarian coffee and food shop, which is run as a collective and is a popular hangout of the Socialist Party USA's candidate for president, Walt Brown.

(SNIP)

At the next table, Tchula Z, 33, an artist and part-time barista at her sister's coffee shop, who uses only Z as a last name, said she woke up Wednesday, learned that Mr. Bush had won and "smoked a cigarette and freaked out."

(SNIP)

"I am prepared to keep my head down, possibly for the rest of my life, under a totalitarian regime," Mr. Conklin said.

(SNIP)

"It just made me cry," Terry Mitchell, 54, an audiologist in Oakland, said of Mr. Bush's re-election. "I am sad that America is asleep at the wheel."

(SNIP)

Jennifer Sloan, 29, was so incensed about Ohio's support of Mr. Bush that she had considered canceling her mother's visit. Ms. Sloan's mother was arriving in San Francisco on Wednesday from Alliance, Ohio, where she lives and where she voted for Mr. Bush.

(SNIP)

A man named Jerry Peace Activist Rubin sat in his stockings in his dark apartment, flummoxed and disoriented, taking condolence calls from well-wishers and rank-and-file left-wingers.

Mr. Rubin is the real-deal California liberal - part-time vegetarian, cat lover, sensitive to cigarette smoke. He says he has never owned a car, never had a credit card or a driver's license; he lists peace activist as his occupation.

Mr. Rubin had been convinced that after four years of the Bush presidency, the country would come around and see things as he and other far-left coasters see them.

(SNIP)

"Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the culture war," Mr. Rubin said.

I. cannot. stop. laughing. These people are just crazy!

[TheExploited]

This article is hilarious. Is it from the Onion?

[Junior]

In a nation of 300 million people, you're bound to get a few folks like these.