Mon Jan 6, 2014, 08:05 PM
samplegirl (5,684 posts)
Update on Leftcoast2020
In a desperate plea to D.U.ers in the Sacramento Area on very special D.U.er named FreakinDJ
offered Leftcoast a place to stay so he would not have to go to a shelter.
I am overwhelmed at times by heartfelt goodness of human kind in Democratic Underground.
"Overwhelmed", you say. "Heartfelt goodness in Democratic Underground" you say.
This may come as a huge surprise...NO, I take that back...This will come as such a shock that you will most likely not believe it:
People out in flyover country, you know, those "racist, inbred, hillbilly, teabagging, Christian, pickup truck driving, uneducated, hicks" that you lot are always looking down your noses at...
They help each other out in ways like that and a hundred others, but its not a special event, its standard fare. They don't go tooting their horns or looking for recognition for it. And they don't need collectivism, or government compulsion, or a sob story, to do it either. They do it because its the right thing...the neighborly thing, to do. Every rural person who posts on this message board, with no exception I'd wager, can relate more than one instance of that happening. Whether its a benefit being held by someone for someone (bet y'all forgot
that definition of the word didn't ya) , or sheltering an entire family whos house burned down, or helping a neighbor get his tractor or other vehicle unstuck.
Keep that in mind next time you want to pat yourselves on the back and cheer like its something special, for doing what folks in rural areas do for each other every day and have been doing since before any of you DUmmies were even an itch in either of your daddies pants.

CMD