Hello from the unheard America

This is the first of a series of occasional reports from one resident of an America that doesn’t seem to get heard of much, outside of venomous speeches by conservative candidates:  that really scary part of America where health care for everyone and the right to marry, gay or straight, are values; where we want good public schools, public higher education, and good government and are willing to pay taxes to have them; where we like Nancy Pelosi and the Occupy movement and don’t see what the problem is with European socialism; and where we know global climate change is real. In other words, I’m one of those people bent on destroying society as we know it. Not surprisingly, I live in northern California, between the wine country and the coast.  What is it like living among us?  What do we do from day to day to erode the fabric of American life?  As I find time, I’ll tell some of the lurid details.