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Dear Friends,

I wanted to write and tell you about an experience that I had in
Maryland on Highway Route 40 today. I had been to visit my parents in
Delaware and was driving home to Arlington. Often I avoid the heavy
traffic on I-95 and take Route 40 to Baltimore. I was stopped at a traffic
light, about to turn right to jog over to join 95 and take the tunnel
under the harbor, when a dark sedan pulled up alongside me, beeped, and
the driver motioned for me to roll down my window. It was not an isolated
place and in broad daylight with lots of other cars around. I thought the
person wanted to ask directions or something so I put down the window.
The driver was a normal-looking young white man, maybe 35 or so, with
short sandy hair. He leaned forward from his open window and said to me
“Did you vote for Obama?”

I should say here that I have two bumper stickers on my back fender.
One says “Peace is Patriotic.” The other is a round circle that says
Obama-Biden. I answered "I sure did." Then he got loud and excited in a
sneering sort of way and asked something like, "Are you happy now with the
way things are going?" I thought “uh-oh” but I answered again, "I sure
am." Then the guy went off his rocker and started verbally accosting me
saying something like, "I hope to God someone shoots you dead, you liberal
Pig..." Sophie started barking and I said "Oh that’s nice" as I rolled up
my window. He lurched forward, cutting me off in the lane and beeping his
horn and I made my right turn, glad to get away from him.

I had time to think about this during the rest of the drive home. I
could not find anger in my heart toward this person, but rather a deep
sadness took over me. Is this what our country is coming to? I’ll bet
this person thinks he is a Christian. I thought about how oppression,
violence and intolerance have characterized human history, and it makes me
sad that we have made so little progress. I feel that our Country is in
deep trouble, threatened by people who claim they want to “Take our
Country Back” – from whom? Take it back where? What Constitution are
they reading? What Bible are they reading?

I am thinking of Nazi Germany before World War II when ordinary German
citizens felt vaguely uncomfortable about what was going on but did not
speak up because it did not impact them directly, and then afterward
because they were afraid. It is a wake-up call to Progressives, Liberals,
Moderates, and Independents who do believe in the values that this country
was founded upon, among them freedom from persecution because of your
beliefs and because of your religion. If we want our streets to be safe to
drive on, we need to find a way to defuse these people without being wimps
and just giving in. We cannot let these people take over our Government!

Please, if you are not paying attention to your local elections this
fall, now is the time to get involved. If you voted for Obama and are now
disappointed because he is not Left enough, think what it will be like
when they try to undo what he has managed to accomplish. If you voted for
Obama and are now disappointed because he is too Liberal for you, do you
really want to go back to the Wild West days when people wore guns in
holsters on their hip? Do you approve of people trying to threaten and
intimidate others just because they voted for a Black man for President?
Did you all really think that we could turn around 8 years of war and
decline in just 18 months? Do you really want to hand over the reins of
government to the people who drove us into the ditch and who have
stubbornly refused to be part of any solution to pull us out? These
people would rather see Obama fail, and the middle class suffer, and the
country pulled apart by strife and conflict than do anything to make
things better. This is not putting country first. Don’t let this kind of
cynicism succeed!

Please folks, don’t sit this one out. If we fail to participate, and
the other side wins for lack of enthusiasm on our part, then truly Fear
will triumph over Hope. We just can’t let that happen! Don’t let the
perfect be the enemy of the good.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to pass this on.

Still a Hope Monger,
Maureen



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