I wore my Hillary shirt to the fair. As I stood at the Star Tribune booth at the bottom of the Grandstand ramp, suddenly a man approached me so closely that he was invading my personal space (nose to nose). He sneered at me and snarled, “Do you like my picture?” as he pulled something out of his pocket. I was very frightened by his actions, and felt, at that moment, the picture he was shoving toward my face would be of his penis.<\/p>\n
It was a picture of Hillary wearing prison garb. I recognized the picture as the image at the Minnesota Republican Party booth that I had seen earlier. The man had mounted it on cardboard, covered it with plastic wrap and was carrying it around in his pocket. Presumably he was looking for people wearing Hillary shirts in order to threaten them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s a little scary \u2013 and, let’s be honest, no different than experiences I have had from the other side. \u00a0 The Strib<\/i>\u00a0will never, ever, ever take the faintest shard of interest in any of those, naturally.<\/p>\n
But when Susan Mallison cries out “who killed civility”, the response is “after all, Sue, it was you”:<\/p>\n
I intend to proudly continue to wear both my Hillary T-shirt and the button that I bought at the DFL booth at the fair. The button says, “Love Trumps Hate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The purple faced, outraged caricatures like those that Ms. Mallison relates to us\u00a0are the comic book version of the real incivility in this state, and in our society: The lumpen, plush bottom, ELCA-coiffed, Volvo driving, Garrison Keillor upsucking, Whole Foods shopping, free range alpaca wearing plush bottomed yoohoos who pin on their DFL issued flair and carry the message that “either you are with us, with the DFL, with Herself, or you are full of hate”.<\/p>\n
These are the people who have debased the term “hate” unto meaninglessness.<\/p>\n
In your own way, Susan Mallison, \u00a0you are no better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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