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The Nice People Who Are Destroying America
American Thinker ^ | 05/20/2023 | Howard Sachs

Posted on 05/20/2023 10:29:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Now, after a long life, I've come to understand how common it is for many basically nice, well meaning people to do terrible things in their lives. When few — that is, on the micro-level — are involved, it may destroy families and communities. When many do it, whole civilizations may be destroyed. It is why, particularly on the macro-level, I care little about niceness. As regards people I rely on outside my home — presidents, teachers, airline pilots, doctors, architects, investment advisers, my rabbi — I don't care fundamentally if I'd enjoy hanging out with them. I care about their work product.

Many, on the other hand, care deeply about niceness. They regularly get blinded by its superficiality and the destructiveness it may conceal. They suffer — we all do — the consequences.

Not being naïve and led astray by niceness is an important rule of life. It brings clarity to how one should approach, especially, the many nice folks in our lives now doing terrible things to our country.

Things are much worse in our country now, decades later. Half of America, tens of millions of basically nice folks are hell-bent on destroying all the core values of this wonderful country. The wall has been breached, the foundation unmoored, the center given way, the abyss entered. We watch each day as virtually every norm, tradition, custom and institution of America has been destroyed or is under powerful assault from many nice people.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: culture; niceness; society
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To: SeekAndFind

EXCELLENT article. Thank you. Posted it on my facebook page, along with some of the comments. Especially like this one: Sorry, these are not “nice” people destroying this nation. Unless their brains are neurologically compromised, people have made choices. A special place is reserved in hell for those who allow children to be harmed and mutilated—whether they are parents, doctors, nurses, teachers, or anyone else responsible for protecting a child.

This is no longer the day and age of 3 television stations and limited media. Everyone who lived through the covid plandemic saw for themselves the lies perpetrated for years and ongoing, related to the manufactured virus, mistreatment of patients, withholding of treatments, coerced “vaccine” injections, the medical and government tyranny resulting in unnecessary deaths. Even mainstream media has admitted many of the “mistakes.”
And after all that, medical monsters willing to defile children’s bodies are somehow to be trusted? Agreeing that a state should take custody of a minor child if parents won’t allow life-altering drugs and surgical procedures?

Those who sacrifice their own children or grandchildren to the Woke religion are not “nice,” they are deliberately ignorant and possessed by evil. I don’t see “nice.” I see monsters pretending to be human.


41 posted on 05/20/2023 1:10:08 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: FreedomPoster

Love this!


42 posted on 05/20/2023 1:12:59 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Right Brother

Lots of toxic unintended consequences to women making silly decisions based on little more than emotion.


43 posted on 05/20/2023 1:13:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (How many 'intelligence' goons & thugs live in mansions on $180,000 a year? And drive expensice cars?)
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To: joma89

Leftist white women are way more effective.
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hm?.......They have the time to be more effective. Gee! The only other thing they have to worry about ( other than themselves) is their cat(s)!


44 posted on 05/20/2023 1:17:38 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: BRL
Niceness is a cool mask for cowardice.

But as for the cowardly, the untrustworthy, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those involved with the occult and with drugs, idol-worshippers, and all liars—their destiny is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, the second death." Revelation 21:8

45 posted on 05/20/2023 1:19:13 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Nice people” in this context are people who don’t want anybody to ever get mad at them for anything. Especially anything radical like saying “no” to their excesses.


46 posted on 05/20/2023 1:29:43 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: SeekAndFind

The road to hell is paved good intentions


47 posted on 05/20/2023 1:32:53 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: GOPJ

Perfectly describes gun control mommies.


48 posted on 05/20/2023 1:34:23 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: joma89

Unfortunately I must agree. They are loud, shrill, and have nothing to do with their time but to push their agenda. Whereas the conservative women are very busy taking care of their families, and while they vote the right way, don’t have time to push an agenda like leftists do


49 posted on 05/20/2023 1:46:19 PM PDT by boxlunch (10th Amendment nullification or secession??? )
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To: Nachoman

Yes it does. They boil down the debate to ‘we don’t want people murdered and “THEY” do...

Similar to the anti war protesters of the 60’s - they said, “we don’t want war - but “THEY” do...

The truth no one ‘wants; murder or war - it’s that sometimes the way to less crime is MORE GUNS. And sometimes the war to NOT be a war to to be ready to fight...

Women’s IQ’s tend to be clustered around the mean... lot’s of 95’s and 105’s not too many 160’s... or 75’s Mother nature’s wink to the job or raising kids vs hunting and defending...


50 posted on 05/20/2023 1:54:07 PM PDT by GOPJ (How many 'intelligence' goons & thugs live in mansions on $180,000 a year? And drive expensice cars?)
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To: x

I know, and I live in an affluent bubble of very very conservative , well educated Christian women, so I forget how rare that is especially in other parts of the country. Ugg


51 posted on 05/20/2023 1:56:17 PM PDT by boxlunch (10th Amendment nullification or secession??? )
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To: SeekAndFind
Bull.

Being "charming" is something that I don't trust at all, but the decency and consideration of others is the foundation of the truly American, truly Christian way of life.

So, go soak your head, Mr. Howard Sachs.

52 posted on 05/20/2023 1:57:45 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: Albion Wilde
It is about overall societal impact. Leftist white women are way more loud and obnoxious.

Leftist women are like Middle School "mean girls". They will go "We WILL exclude you if you don't openly and visibly agree with our positions".

And too many allegedly conservative women will go along rather than "make a scene".

The world will belong to those who are willing to "make a scene".

Jesus was willing to make a scene to make a point. He was willing to whip the money changers out of the Temple.

How many would be willing to whip the drag queens out of the childrens library?

53 posted on 05/20/2023 2:10:20 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Its a veneer. Its phony nice."

Phony as Biden's perpetual camera smile.


54 posted on 05/20/2023 2:14:43 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: imardmd1
Being "charming" is something that I don't trust at all, but the decency and consideration of others is the foundation of the truly American, truly Christian way of life.

Did Jesus hesitate at all in telling sinful people that they sinned, and would go to hell unless they repented?

Would you think that taking a physical WHIP and BEATING people with it, because they were defiling something HOLY, would be regarded by your friends as a "decent and considerate" act?

Often, the best way to be considerate towards people, is to tell them the real long term consequences of their behavior.

55 posted on 05/20/2023 2:19:45 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Anna Barnhardt said it years ago, as did everyone from the beginning of time..

We gave idiots jobs because we didn’t want to exclude people from the process.

Only smart people should be in charge. When we give idiots jobs guess what happens?


56 posted on 05/20/2023 4:14:32 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: SauronOfMordor
would be regarded by your friends as a "decent and considerate" act?

Only if it's God-Incarnate dong it, and I only know one of them. That's not you, right?

57 posted on 05/20/2023 4:28:59 PM PDT by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

—John Dryden


58 posted on 05/20/2023 4:37:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: BRL

Way too many nice people.


59 posted on 05/20/2023 4:53:02 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: dforest

Agreed. I did write “mostly”. That leaves room for plenty more horrible people.


60 posted on 05/21/2023 5:22:30 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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