{"id":2470,"date":"2015-01-26T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2015-01-27T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:44:39","slug":"the-arrival-of-the-lizard-lick-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2015\/01\/26\/the-arrival-of-the-lizard-lick-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lizard Lick Liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the two mile bastion of turkey shoots, used car lots, tow trucks, side arms, barely hidden bigotry, occasionally open racism I roam Highway 97 in Lycra.\u00a0 Yes, the type yoga pants are made of.\u00a0 Mine has butt pads.\u00a0 Recently learned I’m called a MAMIL<\/a>.\u00a0 I am not ashamed.<\/p>\n

I quietly listen as you denounce wage increases and single payer health care.\u00a0 I listen to your angered anti-tax rants.\u00a0 I loathe your fear of government, immigrants, regulation…\u00a0 Your fear of everything<\/em>.\u00a0 Such constant fear.\u00a0 I hear you don’t like the suppression of your Christian practices while denouncing all other worship, threatening those who dare<\/a>.\u00a0 Your island was breached long ago.\u00a0 I move among you a dissenter.\u00a0 A free thinker without fear.\u00a0 No feeling of loss or emptiness when shunned by the local community, a non worshiper.\u00a0 One who does not allow any religious teachings to form my opinions.\u00a0 I am not distressed by your local, revered past time; judging others.\u00a0 I pity it.<\/p>\n

This is a day of self liberation and political awareness.\u00a0\u00a0 Inside this red sea of conservative dogma and sweet tea slang resides more than tow trucks, shot guns and rednecks.\u00a0 There is a liberal in the ranks.\u00a0 One who has gay friends yet is not gay.\u00a0 Some married, residing among you locally.\u00a0 True story.\u00a0 I’m the one who prefers to ride a bike instead of driving a pickup.\u00a0 One whose children attend your coveted, local, conservative charter school.\u00a0 Someone who does not think unstable, anti-social, insane people should be armed, despite any amendment or sanctimonious perceived right.\u00a0 Dear Zeus, I drive a Subaru in your zip code!\u00a0\u00a0 I am certain this is causing some Lizard Lick locals extensive anguish so I will have mercy just one time and not extrapolate on my cycling adventures to Whole Foods and experiences with fine wine.<\/p>\n

If all that hasn’t created an unhealthy blood flow, caused an extra drip of Skoal or mustard into your beard I will leave you with this:\u00a0 Reagan was wrong on the economy and all Muslim’s are not Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n

Let’s begin.\u00a0 Namaste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the two mile bastion of turkey shoots, used car lots, tow trucks, side arms, barely hidden bigotry, occasionally open racism I roam Highway 97 in Lycra.\u00a0 Yes, the type yoga pants are made of.\u00a0 Mine has butt pads.\u00a0 Recently learned I’m called a MAMIL.\u00a0 I am not ashamed. I quietly listen as you denounce … Continue reading A Lizard Lick Liberal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}