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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI don't know where to post this....
So I'm posting it here, because it's kind of random. Excuse my randomness.
Here in Wauconda, IL, we have a local Tea Party branch. Called the Liberty Street Patriots (Liberty street is also Rte. 176). Now, the town I live in, Wauconda, is a little back-water town....it used to be a resort town until the railroad went away, in the 30's or something. We have a big lake in the middle of town, and there were all these little vacation cabins around it...until they were torn down in 2007 to make lake-front properties for wealthy people. Then the economy crashed, the lots are un-sold...and they're loaded with no tresspassing signs.
It's still what I would call a lower middle class kind of place. Blue collar, hockey watching, beer drinking salt of the earth people like myself. I don't drink beer or watch hockey, but I'm unemployed, and a former musician. I think you get where I'm coming from.
The chapter head of the Liberty Street Tea Party lives in Barrington, IL. Barrington, Barrington Shores, are enclaves of the wealthy. It's a place of huge houses on huge lots...I believe it's zoned for 5 acres for each house. Horse country. Now, in this area, because land is so expensive, you have to have money or land to own a horse. If you have land here, you have money. If you have money, you have land. If you have money and no land, you board your horse/s. The least you will pay for boarding around here is $400 a month.
So, the head of the Tea Party for my little lower middle class town is a wealthy dude who lives in Barrington. He has apparently been reading Ayn Rand lately, and discovered the word "collectivist," because it's in every e-mail, several times, from them. They give out copies of The Fountainhead at every meeting.
The capper? His last name is Nutter. NUTTER.
libodem
(19,288 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,681 posts)His last name is NUTTER?
You can't make this shit up, can you?
kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)I think sometimes that real life is so funny that I don't need to embellish at all!
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)would miss the humor in this. I had friends who lived in Barrington before moving to NJ...most definitely a 'high rent' district.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)One is a retiree from the us army corps of engineers.
One is a current employee of the USPS.
Etc etc
They all are dependent on the government that they scream should be drowned in a bath tub.
It baffles, the amount of humorous bullshit that they don't seem to grasp.
surrealAmerican
(11,363 posts)... you just groan. It's way too obvious for fiction, but if you see it in real life, it'll make you smile.