As I was saying goodbye to my beloved Solara a year ago this week, I was remembering what it was like to live behind enemy lines: We lived in West Linn, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, from September 1988 to December 2020. That is a Blue Metro Area in a Blue State. Beginning in the 1990s only reckless Oregonians dared to put any type of “conservative” or GOP bumper sticker on their cars. If the bumper sticker was spotted by a Democrat bully (there were many, many of them), the car would be keyed, windows shattered or worse. Our neighbor gave us a very small “Veterans for Bush” sticker during the 2004 election. We dared to put it on the back window of my husband’s brand new 2004 Toyota 4Runner. NOT TOO BRIGHT, BUT WE THOUGHT WE LIVED IN FREE-SPEECH AMERICA. A few days later we caught a young man trying to remove the sticker while the SUV was parked in our driveway. We thanked him for not breaking the window. Seriously.
WHY DOES DIANE HAVE SIX BUMPER STICKERS?
We call ourselves riot refugees. When the BLM/Antifa domestic terrorists arrived just two blocks from our home in July 2020, the West Linn City Council welcomed them and told the police to stand down. THAT was the last straw for us. [The second to the last straw was using our tax edollars to abuse little kids.] As we predicted, both Portland and West Linn have continued to disintegrate since then: crime, homelessness, drug abuse continues to increase, while Normal Americans continue to escape, taking their taxbase with them.
We moved to our beach house on the Washington Coast, at the mouth of the Columbia River. Yes, Washington State is in the vice grip of Democrat/Progressive/Marxist tyrants; BUT, on our little peninsula the Democrats/Liberals have not yet turned into vandals & thugs. They never keyed my little red buggy. After years of not being allowed to express myself with bumper stickers, I went a little nuts. With the Biden Regime working overtime to destroy the Bill of Rights and push ever more Americans into poverty, I could not stay silent. When I came across a bumper sticker that told the truth, I put it on my car. What do you think?
I WANT YOUR “LIVING BEHIND ENEMY LINES” STORIES
Democrats/Liberals living in areas dominated by Republicans/Conservatives feel a lot more comfortable than vice versa. Conservatives have a “live & let live” attitude and don’t bully Liberals. Liberals have little respect for those holding different views and often feel free to bully & harass their Conservative co-workers, neighbors, etc. Conservatives jokingly call this “living behind enemy lines.”
I want to hear your stories about living behind enemy lines. How do your “left-wing” neighbors treat you? What do you do to protect your safety and your sanity? Do you pretend to be a Liberal in order to keep your job? Did your Democrat friends & colleagues call you names and abandon you when Trump won? Has someone called the police because your house flies an American flag? Do you have a “Karen” for a neighbor? I want to hear your stories of survival: amusing stories, scary stories, disgusting stories, anything you want to tell me.
Please send your story directly to me at Diane@PeninsulaPatriots.com. This is a ProtonMail address which is encrypted, secure from the thought police. I will protect your privacy: I just need your first name, the town’s name, the state’s name and your story of living behind enemy lines.
“TRUMP COUNTIES” THRIVING, “BIDEN COUNTIES” DYING
The author, Diane L. Gruber, is a First Amendment advocate who writes for Substack. She calls her Substack newsletter America First Re-Ignited.
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