Bored Old Democrats

Unless you are an outdoors adventurer prone to hiking, kayaking, canoeing, camping, surfing, swimming or rock-climbing, Maine can be a boring place to live. Its largest city of Portland has a great symphony, one authentic art museum that never has any major exhibitions, some mediocre theater venues, one children's museum that looks good from the outside but having no kids at home I have not been inside, and one nutty museum devoted to pictures of Bigfoot that's funny one time, especially if you are stoned. Otherwise, cultural activities are nonexistent unless you count going to the movies or eating in restaurants "cultural activities."

So, you might be wondering, what do non-athletic people do for fun besides shop? I'm not sure what Republicans do, but Democrats stand on street corners for hours at a time, holding hand-made signs damning the President. In our little town of Freeport this silliness takes place on Tuesday mornings. In Ogunquit, a popular resort town an hour away, it happens on Thursday afternoons, something we learned firsthand yesterday. It was quite chilling.

Perhaps 40 oldsters -- or seniors or boomers or retirees or whatever you want to call them -- all of them overweight, sloppily dressed and looking like nut cases from the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, lined Ogunquit's main street, waved signs that proclaimed "No Kings!" and "Dump Trump!" and more like that. One man approached our open car window and dropped in a pre-printed propaganda card, both sides carrying incendiary and false statements designed to sway my vote. 

Those poor people should learn to play Bridge to salvage their deteriorating brain cells.