Liberal picks up after Libertarian

Andy Snow has been going to Yankee Hill recreation area to look at birds, ID flowers and count monarch butterflies for two years now. He noticed a lot of trash left behind by fishermen. Beer cans, worm containers in Styrofoam, lots of plastic water bottles. “I hate plastic, you should read about microplastics.” Andy now picks up the first plastic grocery bag he sees and uses work gloves he brings to pick up all the trash. 

Andy is generally very happy, now with a small child at home. The child will no doubt be picking up trash with Andy by toddler age. “I like picking up trash. The guys may be sloppy and probably never even vote, that’s their problem. I am doing a small part to make this a better world. I have a happy family and I see a great country after Trump is gone. These guys are no longer married or hide at the lake all their spare time because their wives are fat and watch TV all day. We bicycle when I am not here. I already have the trailer for the baby when she’s a few months older.” 

It turns out that more than three fourths of the trash that is thrown in this area comes from one man. 

Bill Black is a libertarian. He has been a hard-core libertarian ever since the day Obama got elected. Throwing trash is just a small part of the fight against big government. Even now with Trump in charge, Bill is not happy. “I thought that Trump putting in less regulation would help. I don’t want my kid vaccinated, for example. But the state people are just undoing him.” It appears that the state of Oklahoma has picked up some of the regulation that Trump abandoned.

The corporations are running the world, and Bill does not quite want to support them very much. They run the country through that same Big Government. With less government we would have the corporations more under control as consumers. Or so he thinks, the theory is still in the works. This is one point where he disagrees with Trump. “I support local. I drink local beer, I go to local restaurants, never Trump’s KFC. My dad’s hardware went out of business because of Wal Mart.” Bill works at a national hard ware chain, making keys and sometimes mixing paints. “It’s a job. I’m just saving to get off the grid.” Bill’s marriage did not work after his wife Cathy went and got his boy vaccinated for every thing that they vaccinate kids for these days. Even human papillomavirus. “He should just wear a condom if he wants sex with girls at fifteen.” Bill now lives in a camper that he pulls with his pick-up. In the summer he is at various recreation areas within 20 miles of his work place. At night he writes angry posts at Free Republic and Twitter.

Andy by now knows about Bill. He heard Bill angrily protest the fishing license with another fisherman. They have never talked to each other but Andy gives him a wave and Bill does a weird pointing of the index finger and a smoker’s heavy laugh after that. It even cheers Bill to see “that yuppy working so hard”, but then he goes back to being grumpy as soon as Andy is gone.