I am mad. I am mad beyond belief. The war of oppression has come to my household, and in a very personal way.
I live in a townhouse on a college campus. My three housemates and I are all rabid lefties. As such, our door is covered with liberal bumper stickers, from "Take Back America" to "Paul Babbitt for Congress" to "Kerry-Edwards: A Stronger America" to "S.L.O.B (Support Locally Owned Businesses)" We are a great standing advertisement for a variety of Democratic and liberal causes. At least, we were until tonight.
There are some drunken Republicans who live in the house next to us and the house two doors down from them. They are always out holding keg parties, blasting loud music at 3 AM, and shouting random things at me as I walk by ("It's Bill Gates! Hi Bill Gates!"). They also have ripped down our Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker several times; luckily my housemate has a whole stack of them and keeps putting up new ones.
Tonight, I went outside and discovered the remnants of all the bumper stickers on the ground. My Paul Babbitt sticker, which I carried across the country from Arizona. My S.L.O.B. sticker, which I saved for three years before I found a good place to put it. Dammit, these vandals ripped down everything.
I am now at a complete loss to figure out how to deal with these people. The ripping down happened maybe an hour ago at most. Should I call Public Safety and report them for vandalism? Should I report them for their partying and leave the vandalism alone? Should I do nothing and let the oppression of Republicans win?
I feel like going over and bashing their faces in. These stupid drunks have cost the Democratic Party money and advertising. They are winning, even though they are bad and wrong. It's a microcosm of the whole situation in Washington.
So what should I do?
I'll post again when I've done something, and tell you what it is I've done.