Living Behind Enemy Lines, Tale #99: When Liberals Take Over A Club, They Ruin The Fun, Chase Away Conservatives

A year ago, I was surprised to hear that Dee was considering quitting the Peninsula Senior Activity Center on the Long Beach Peninsula, WA where she and her husband had been members for nine years and where she had volunteered as a waitress for four years during the twice monthly breakfast meals. The vibe had changed, according to her. She felt rejected. She didn’t know why. She is a Conservative and a Trump supporter but rarely talks politics, knowing that it was SUPPOSED TO BE against the center’s bylaws. Many Liberals, of course, ignore the bylaws.

Dee had made many friends at the senior center but she thought they had been avoiding her ever the board of directors held a Hate-Trump event in the building on January 11, 2025 wherein a group of election denying women painted signs to use the following week when they marched around town screaming at Trump voters. SEE THE ARTICLE LINKED BELOW [This county voted for Trump three times.] This blatant violation of both the club’s bylaws and its IRS tax-exempt status signaled to Liberal members that they “owned” the club and thus they could bully Conservatives. I, too, had noticed it; but, I am used to the abuse given that I sometimes wear my support on my back, literally, in the form of a hoodie with Trump’s face on it which I purchased in South Dakota.^ Such attire could not be purchased on Washington State because the Democrats would sic their thugs on the store, beat up the clerks and trash the merchandise.

In Marxist California, Oregon & Washington many Conservatives and Republicans have long since been “trained” to keep their “political identity” private for fear of losing one’s job, getting bad grades in schools & colleges, being harassed by neighbors, being doxed, being assaulted on the street, and worse. The abuse escalated when Trump won his first term, then escalated again during & after the Democrat-run riots in 2020. There had not been an open Conservative on the senior center board for at least a decade until 2024.

LIBS FEEL FREE TO VIOLATE RULES, LAWS

The Peninsula Senior Activity Center was founded in 2000 as a place where residents aged 50 and over could meet, enjoy many different activities and share meals. In the last decade plus it had developed a reputation as a “club for Liberals,” because all seven members on the board of directors were either flaming Liberals or leaned Left. Some board members had been on the board for six years, some lesser times, but all members leaned Left, until one Conservative joined the board in 2024. Indeed, I was attending a board meeting in January 2022 when they refused to rent to a man who wanted to show educational videos about the US Constitution and invite the public. [The building is available to rent for $400.] The board flatly turned him down stating that such an event would attract the “wrong people.” By that they meant it would attract Republicans & Trump supporters, because Democrats & Biden supporters don’t like the constitution that has kept us free for 250 years.

One board member held a visceral hatred for Trump which threw her into an uncontrollable fit when he beat Kamala Harris by a landslide. Since then, she has headed up all three of the election denial events, AKA “No Kings,” rallies held in this little Purple community. Even more disgusting was her abject selfishness regarding the damage a “Women’s March” sign painting event would do to the senior center. This hate-filled board member orchestrated it, and the following weekend she and the other election deniers marched up and down the tourist part of town screaming at Trump voters, waving the signs they had made at the senior center. [The same election deniers have held so many rallies on the Long Beach Peninsula that 2025-2026 tourism is down. Many tourists check the internet BEFORE planning their trips. They don’t want to vacation at a place where Hate-Trump rallies might interfere with their fun.]

INSULTING TRUMP VOTERS OUT OF THE CLUB

Though her reputation as a Far Left Extremist preceded her, in January 2025 I had not yet met this board member as she was relatively new on the board at the time she orchestrated this event. Since then, I have gotten to know her better. I am convinced that her main goal was to insult Trump voters so that they would not renew their memberships. The dues are collected annually between January and April. THAT is why she published a photo of the event in February’s “Gazette,” the senior center’s monthly newsletter. SEE PHOTO BELOW It worked! On December 31, 2024 membership totaled just below 900. On April 27, 2025, it was 590, a decrease that did not happen even during the two-year Covid lockdown. Since she was hired in September 2025 the new office manager has worked very hard, contacting former members, asking them to renew. As of April 26, 2026, the membership totaled only 641. The center lost many volunteers as well.

Essentially given a greenlight, Liberal volunteers sometimes chastised members while they were eating a meal. “No politics allowed in this building. You are not allowed to talk politics with others while you are eating.” Some senior center members cowered at such nastiness while others reminded these nasty Liberals that they had no such authority.

NASTY LIBERALS

Since January 2025 the Liberal members of the senior center have become increasingly nasty. To curb this behavior, the new office manager recently started sending out “codes of conduct” messages with each weekly email Blast such as: “Please be Kind,” “Be Helpful,” and “Be Respectful” as though these senior citizens are still in kindergarten.

Yours truly was appointed to the board in early April 2026 after a Lib quit because she demanded to always have her way. The one Rabid Lib is still on the board, but much is changing with two strong Conservatives and three apparent moderates. The seventh seat is vacant because a Lib quit in a snit just hours after she was elected in late April. The new board hopes to turn the senior center into a club for everyone, not just Liberals.

Follow me on X Diane L. Gruber

^It rains A LOT at the mouth of the Columbia River; therefore, everyone wears hoodies everywhere. The day can start out clear and sunny, but can turn windy and rainy on a dime. When we were in South Dakota in September 2023 I bought a raspberry red hoodie with ULTA MAGA on the front and a photo of President Trump’s Fulton County, GA mugshot on the back. This bogus, politically-motivated case was eventually thrown out of court.