There's a lot of talk about
being nice floating around the Internets (thanky al gore!) these days. Why can't we just
be nice to one another? Why can't we be civil in the debate of such important matters? Why all the hubbub, bub?!
Having grown up predominately with the male species coupled with rough and tumble West Texas as the backdrop allows me certain insights into why, exactly, we can't
be nice in this fight.
Reason #1) When one is faced with an opponent that wishes to bring one to their knees, an opponent looking to score all the power, an opponent who will lie, cheat and steal in order to get what they want when they want it, niceness tends to be the least effective tool in the box to fight back with.
Reason #2) Barry is a bully who wants his way at all costs. Bullies do not respond to nice with nice. Bullies respond to nice with a killing blow. Ergo, to stop a bully, one needs to respond to said bully decisively. A direct blow that the bully can understand. One recent example:
YOU LIE! has been known to render a bully speechless, as well as to cause his minions to weakly flap like fish out of water afterwards with overly dramatic reactions such a
s banning the words (on the house floor): LIAR, HYPOCRITE or INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST.
Don't worry Joe, I offer some alternatives that you can use (until they ban them): SWARMY, ASSHAT and America's favorite COMMUNIST DOUCHE.
Reason #3) The issues facing this country are of such enormous proportions, issues that have the power to reshape the America of the Free to the America of the Enslaved, that genuine emotions are running high and wide. When the President of the United States, a person who should be leading us instead of defaming us, calls the growing voice of opposition
fringe (or the handy inflammatory go-to name that his minions have taken to calling us of late: RACISTS!) to gain what he wants regardless of the will of the people, when the President of the United States continuously and brazenly lies to the American people about his policies, when the President of the United States welcomes into his administration, and takes council from, a known communist (Jones
himself boldly declares that distinction), then how else does anyone propose the opposition tries to be heard? Does anyone honestly think that
being nice will solve the problems we are facing? Does anyone think that
being nice got the colonists anywhere in their fight to be heard? Does anyone think Hitler would have relented in his plans if the rhetoric had been toned down by those who opposed him, those who tried to warn others of him?!
Hitler: You people fighting to be heard are so horrible with your loud voices and nasty accusations.
BE NICE, can't you?! Whew, that's more like it. Now, those of you who are especially compilable and nice, get into that oven.
Right.
The issue here isn't whether or not these burning issues can be worked out with civility and thoughtful action, I know by conversations I have had with others not in politics that they indeed can be, the issue is how do you work these issues out while also having to fight a bully and his minions who have no need for compromise?
To some, prior to the election, Barry seemed like a great guy, a nice guy, looking for sincere hope and change. Now that months have passed and Barry has shown us who he really is by action and word, we see exactly what it is we are fighting against. Barry and Crew should never play poker. Their tell is their nastiness if you dare oppose them, if you dare question what the hell they are trying to accomplish with death care, cap and trade, or name any push-through-as-fast-as-you-can-policy-here.
Take it from me, a gal who grew up with some of the raunchiest, meanest, fight-to-the-end boys. Nice has no place in what needs to be done. This fight will be a slog through the dirtiest muck imaginable. It's going to be an issue-to-issue fight to the end of the Barry's term. They have proven that
being nice will accomplish the demise of our great country.
If we are going to keep our liberty, if we are going to keep our freedom, if we are going to wake up and understand the truth of what our opposition has in store for us, b
eing nice is not an option. Being truthful, forceful and hitting back with everything we have will be what saves us, what saves them. We must counter every lie of theirs with truth. There will be shouting. There will be anger at their audacity to move forward without consent of the American people.
Putting aside nice will require getting dirty. It is not for the faint-hearted. When faced with a bully,
being nice gets you nothing but another battle, another fight on another day. It's a truth known to children far and wide who work their issues out on playgrounds around the world. The time has come for
being nice to take a seat and wait its turn.
Once a bully is sufficiently convinced of your determination, that you are there standing, fighting, to the end, that there is no winning for him, then and only then, will we get to talk about
being nice again.
Righteous anger, righteous action, righteous push back IS the new nice.
Onward.