“Jesus taught turning the other cheek primarily as a personal response to personal insult. Christian teaching does not recommend a passive response to evil at the social level. Quite the opposite. In fact, the most vigorous opposition to the left right now is coming from all those who get that stealing from a productive person to pay off an unproductive person is a moral wrong. Christians, Jews, and anyone else that gets natural law, are the front line of the resistance movement.”
Nice post and thank you
Having said that, this whole conflict is more like Othello than chess. Personal kindness to rude individuals can seriously take the wind out of their sails. Conflict can be minimized, if no wholly eliminated. I have won back friends and successfully resolved seemingly unresolvable tangles by enduring unwarranted abuse to a point of embarrassing the opposition. It actually works, this turning of the cheek. But only in the proper context.
The last sentence is the key. Conservatives have been acting a Gentlemen and Gentlewomen for far to long. It is time to pull out the howitzers and start blasting away at the worst of the opposition. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Bawney Fwank, etc... Need to be vilified as much as possible. Every mistake they make turn into a commercial. Go back through their past with a fine tooth comb, give them the most intense protological exam ever, make the treatment and abuse of Sarah Palin look like kisses from a small child. We want them in a corner in the fetal position, sucking their thumbs crying and whimpering like a beat puppy. Then say "Now how do you like it".
If they begin to act the least bit defiant start over again only harder. Make if very clear that we can play nice, or we can beat them at their own game...
Either way works for us.