Who really is being persecuted? Conservatives or Liberals?

I realize that on this newsgroup, this is the push-poll of all push-polls, so I won't even pretend that the results matter as much as the responses. Instead, I hope this poll catches the interest of some journalist and that this topic is allowed a wider audience.

Who really is persecuted in the USA?

(1) Conservatives have their church groups to turn to exchange ideas and interests. From those churches spring up Jazzercise classes, mommy and me groups, etc. As long as the conversations stay towards the right end of the spectrum, they'll get all the support they want. I realize that there are Liberal churches too, but they are in the minority, and certainly not affiliated with the Vatican or Southern Baptist churches which many of us are born to. Really, what mainstream organizations do Democrats have to turn to where they can find like-minded individuals?

(2) Do you feel freer in a Republican county to slap on a pro-Democratic bumper sticker or in a Democratic county to slap on a pro-Republican bumper sticker? Liberal areas, by practice, will allow larger latitudes of tolerance. That's just my opinion. I haven't slapped anything on my vehicle for fear of getting key-jobbed, or having it effect my kids in a negative way due to idle gossip. I live in a Republican county.

(3) Do you find even your Liberal relatives trying to hush you up in a conversation to appease the conservative member of the family because it's not politically correct?

(4) Do you feel you have to declare yourself as a Republican or as a Democrat in order to facilitate business transactions?

(5) Do you feel free to force your politics or religion on strangers, WHILE panhandling at the same time?

(6) Do you feel righteous in breaking the laws because your political and religious beliefs should prevail despite due process?

This is just a beginning, but in the end, which party is really the one being persecuted and which one is the one that is ramming themselves on everybody else?

needs killing, the near first order of business is to invent a term to call him so as to dehumanize him, to point out the perceived superiority/inferiority relationship.
The first step has been very well established. Expect, soon, to see a name, something like "gook" to arise for use against the hated "liberal" creature--a name that will be slightly humorous, from a very limited point of view, so the namer (fundamentalist right wing, of course) can pretend to be subtly intellectual, while leaving enough room so he can run away or pretend no harm was intended.

that means, "anything else but a Kool-aid drinking Republican."

or "thinking" or "well-adjusted"? ;)

in every day life. If we were able to identify each other on the street and know we aren't alone, a lot of the rest of the shit we have to tolerate might even be bearable.

Don't worry, if the conservatives have their way with all the wire tapping we will all be branded with an L on our foreheads.

:sarcasm:

Face facts, Conservatives are a much-abused minority. In an age when Christianity is so overshadowed by other religions in the USA, the only possible conclusion to be drawn from the Iranian and Cuban-sponsored War on Christmas is that Conservatives are being abused on a vast scale. When liberals control all three branches of government, and those saying "Merry Christmas" are openly gunned down on the street, I can't see how anyone could say Liberals are persecuted. Nowadays there are few conservatives who will question the Liberal oligarchy: timid writers like Ann Coulter seem determined just to "get along" with liberals. All of America's leading businesses are run by hardcore leftists. So are all leading media outlets. And don't forget that a legion of homosexuals intentionally giving AIDS to all they meet (it can be transmitted by breath) is present on every street.
When every Conservative is herded into death camps by NAMBLA members bearing AK47's supplied by Iran, Cuba, and Venzuela while the French armies flood into Washington, don't say you weren't warned. Stalin's War on Christmas is only the first step! Karl Marx told me so. In person.

This war on Christmas crap is so out of perspective. I don't see one gunman outside of any church in the USA stopping anyone from going in or out of the building.

fits here.

Just my opinion.

been fired because i had a Free Tibet bumper sticker in my car.. from a job that had NO breaks in 12 hours and a 1/2 hour unpaid lunch.

it was so weird, I got my ass chewed out about there being 3 drops of pee on the bathroom floor, i was so tired i never stood up to pee. I was told if i couldn't pee without making a mess i should squat like a woman to pee... i didn't tell him i did.

just before that tantrum by the boss a guy there told me someone had told him my bumper sticker was about the Dalai Lama a godless Buddhist.. he said his nephew was a Tibetan Buddhist, in a whisper. i also got fired from 2 jobs in Texas after a religious lecture.. i never figured it was the bumper sticker.

We are NOT FREE here in the rural south. I can not talk to my brother unless he wants something form me.

I have never felt persecuted for religious or political beliefs. I have sometimes felt bigotry because of my weight, which is up there.

My husband is Zen Buddhist and has not been persecuted for that.

Gutless wonders.

In reality.

Although there aer always people willing to blame their problems on some imagined persecution. Plenty of those people on both sides of the fence.

Bryant
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I know at least 30% of this county is Democratic, but damn if they even dare to peep their party affiliation.

I'm Democratic, though. And I peep my party affiliation relatively regularly.

It assumes that there are no conservatives or liberals outside of the 2 majority parties.

My answer would be liberals. That includes liberal independents, liberal 3rd party members, and liberal democrats attacked by conservative members of their own party. There are plenty of Democrats on the "attack the liberals" bandwagon.