It's amazing how readily other people will give up any power they have in a situation and give it to someone else.
Apparently, from the complaints that I've heard, I've been empowered with the ability to bring this neighborhood to its social and political knees. That's a heck of a lot of power to give up to one person.
Personally, I don't claim it nor want it; however, if this neighborhood needs a scapegoat in order to be able to live with their lies and their repressed emotions, then I'm as good a person as anyone. I don't mind being the lightning rod of all the ills the neighborhood. I aint going to stop.
Basically, what I have been doing is holding up the arguments of others to the light. Holding them right up there where everyone can see the flies and the drippings -- maybe even get a good whiff of it and get sickened by them. Apparently, I'm doing a pretty darned good job of it. Those that would rather me become a male equivalent of Carol Milford have come out of the woodwork.
I'm not trying to win friends. I'm not trying to bring others to my side. The sides have already been chosen. I'm just making people have to live with their decisions and make them realize that they have made a decision. Maybe they'll be sickened by it. Maybe they'll be emboldened by it. Most of them will ignore it. That's their own business.
All I know is that I made a decision that the bullying that has been going on in this neighborhood will meet with opposition from me. They no longer will be able to bully and not pay a price. I will be there to show them for what they are. Some people will get it. Some people won't be so lucky. Some people could care less and other will find it the funniest dang thing they read that day.
I'm here for all of these people and unless some foul play befalls me or I get run over by a bus on Main Street, I'm here to stay.
Working towards a better Gopher Prairie,
Jeff
Posted by Jeff at March 16, 2005 11:53 PM