If Conservatives Set Aside Civility To Fight The Left’s Rude Provocation, We Will All Lose

The Federalist ^ | June 27, 2018 | Georgi Boorman

[C19fan]

Remember when Laura Ingraham tweeted about how David Hogg was “whining” after being rejected by a bunch of colleges, and the left, in a fit of outrage, immediately went after her show’s advertisers? I seem to recall folks on the right were pretty irritated at those pushy social justice warriors. But now that White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant out of the owner’s “moral conviction,” some say it’s time to “go low” and “fight dirty.”

SkyMast, whose profile description says she’s been “resisting the siren call of Marxism for 23 years straight,” also tweeted: “These suppliers get to choose which side they come down on, sucks that they are forced into this position, but Red Hen pulled the trigger. Wars are messy and often times unfair. Such is life.”

[publius911]

It’s like Adams said, "Our Republic was made for a Christian and moral nation."

If the other side is neither, civility won’t work.

Bears repeating.

[Billthedrill]

We should be civil and understanding. Toward the survivors.

The Left has reached the point when the most childish and violent are now driving the bus, absolutely convinced that their violence is justified and unwilling to swerve from physical confrontation. The risk of not opposing this is greater, in my view, than the risk of rising to it.

[publius911]

What damage to our side has the likes of Maxine Waters [done?]
Has Mad Maxine cast even ONE vote in Congress that did not damage these United States?

Over 70% of U.S. voters are blithering ignorant dumb-as-rocks imbeciles.
80%, if we include fraudulent voters.

Aside from the obvious damage resulting, these same imbeciles believe that a State's elected representatives' sworn duty is to the ubangi tribe that elected them, not to ALL the citizens of the United States.

Hence, the damage to the security, safety and welfare* of the United States that results should be obvious, even to the tribal politics "social warrior" thugs.

* The informed adult civilized definition, not the gibesmedat and snowflake perversion.

[publius911]

So I think the problem goes way beyond incivil speech, and I think that we have got to push for a return to a society of laws.

Great post, and I would not quibble were it not for the entrenched, continuing assault on language :

Not only must we push for the return of a Nation of Laws but only if coupled with absolute equality to their application to all. From the President to the most concealed homeless person. No exceptions, no "protected" groups. Ever again."

Laws attempting circumvention of this Constitutional absolute shall be deemed UnConstitutional with no debate.

[zeestephen]

Re: If Conservatives Set Aside Civility To Fight The Left’s Rude Provocation, We Will All Lose

Famous last words of 6 million European Jews.

Mass suicide never goes out of style.

Even today, a politically significant minority of Israeli Jews, and a solid majority of American Jews, are still trying to surrender to the homicidal Left.

[publius911]

The red hen is a win for us. the woman who owns it resigned from a business board, her restaurant is closed until july 5 because of protestors, so she loses all that business. She may lose more when she reopens. their yelp rating is in the toilet.

Half financial interest owned by a convicted pedophile is just icing on the cake.

[publius911]

You may be a very kind and good person; but you scare the bejeesis out of me.
The concept of parents, since prehistoric times, is to teach our offspring to survive.

How have you managed to survive this long?

That's as mindless as "that's not who we are..."

[publius911]

Yes.
Trump is a Nazi.

You seem to be in the wrong forum.
Free Republic is for informed adults.

[Ken H]

It was /s.

[Ken H]

Ah yes. Forgot Trump = Hitler.

[ripley]

“Those that fail to see the left as they truly are...”

Both Hitler, Stalin and Lenin were arrested for treason/inciting-to-riot, or whatever they called it back then, then released. They were not recognized for what they were.

They then came back as the most notorious murdering scu&bags the world has ever seen.

IMHO

[bert]

Yes Grorgie....... right on. Just let the lions eat you up.

[Ken H]

That was /s. See post he was replying to.

[publius911]

All that is true. But my point still stands ... the Dems are destroying themselves with these actions.

Find out what is said about opinions.
That, friend, is an opinion.

[publius911]

I wasn’t aware that there was a whole lot of civility to be found on either side.

Odd, but that was also the case in Civil war V1.4...
s*** happens.

[al_c]

Is it?

[OldMissileer]

The “civility” surrender monkeys include George Will, Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Lowry. They are ok with losing, as long as they lose with dignity.

They are the ones who found a way to make a very comfortable living being the losers. Like that basketball team that traveled with the Harlem Globetrotters, they have made themselves the designated losers and are paid handsomely for doing so.

Any winning by real conservatives will stop their gravy train.

[publius911]

You seem to misunderstand my comment. Its not about “shutting up.”

I never suggested "shutting up." I DID suggest superior ruthless physical response. To real or threatened physical attack.

[OldMissileer]

I live in DC. The entire “civility” movement here was meant to silence uppity citizens critical of the burgeoning power of the federal government. Be civil. In other words Shut UP!

I live south of DC and worked there for many years. That is one of the main reasons I sold my company and totally abandoned going near DC.

[publius911]

I have never been, am not now, nor will I ever be a millennial.
Thank God. Arrogant entitled and ignorant is no way to go through life.