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If Conservatives Set Aside Civility To Fight The Left’s Rude Provocation, We Will All Lose
The Federalist ^ | June 27, 2018 | Georgi Boorman

Posted on 06/28/2018 6:51:45 AM PDT by 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.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018issues; alinsky; civility; culture; dncstrategy; maga; rudedems; trump2020
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Of course the writer goes the turn the other cheek route. If you do that your face will look like a boxer's who took a beating. If one does not fight back then the Left will never stop. The only way to stop it is to give the Left a taste of their own medicine and perhaps they will learn to stop. Not saying looking for trouble but pacifism is out of the question.
1 posted on 06/28/2018 6:51:45 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

i fear nothing when i am in the right.


2 posted on 06/28/2018 6:54:32 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: C19fan

Wimps like that would have given us Hillary.

To hell with that!


3 posted on 06/28/2018 6:54:45 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: C19fan

Nonsense. The left wants a war ... let us give them one.


4 posted on 06/28/2018 6:57:01 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan

Too long. We have turned the other cheek long enough. Even the Lord had his limits. We have hit ours.


5 posted on 06/28/2018 6:57:04 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: C19fan

Sounds like a GOPe. Make yourself a rug to be trampled on then when worn turn the other side for more.


6 posted on 06/28/2018 6:57:09 AM PDT by Lent
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To: C19fan

Sorry, not sorry. The culture wars call for a response. Surrendering without returning fire is not an appropriate response.

FREEP ON


7 posted on 06/28/2018 6:58:20 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: C19fan

We’re above all that.
It’s not who we are.
If we fight back, the liberals win.
We’re better than that.


8 posted on 06/28/2018 6:59:14 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: C19fan; All
During my time in the camps, I had gotten to know the enemies of the human race quite well. They respect the big fist and nothing else. The harder you slug them, the safer you’ll be.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Those that fail to see the left as they truly are will become their victims indeed.
9 posted on 06/28/2018 6:59:28 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Did I forget any?


10 posted on 06/28/2018 7:00:13 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Lent

There’s so much irony is we could talk about. The left talks about how they are liberal and tolerant and how love trumps hate. Yep they exhibit such hatred towards anyone who is not liberal it’s astounding. Their behavior is the exact opposite of what they preach.

So now the crowd which preaches that love trumps hate and how tolerance they are, believe that we should angrily confront people in restaurants and other public places.

There is irony here but I think the irony is lost on the simple-minded liberals who are pushing and picking these fights.


11 posted on 06/28/2018 7:00:16 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: NorthMountain
I am not in favor of a war because the outcome is entirely unpredictable and has grave consequences, even for the righteous. However, I am all in favor of being prepared for one in the event that our only choices are war or the slavery of subjugation.
12 posted on 06/28/2018 7:00:22 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: C19fan

Just stick with the truth, and righteousness, and all will be well. There is no need to “compromise,” especially according to the warped and narrow standards of Washington DC.

Certainly there is no need to match the Left’s vulgarity.


13 posted on 06/28/2018 7:01:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Ken H

Yup. It’s falling for Alinsky’s rules—force them to live by their own rules and morals. Except it doesn’t work when dealing with Alinskyites. 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.


14 posted on 06/28/2018 7:01:26 AM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: VanDeKoik

If the Marxists are not destroyed they will destroy us.


15 posted on 06/28/2018 7:01:27 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: C19fan

We just wanted to live in peace with our families and friends, and we were willing to co-exist with these morons. But when violent, radical socialist/communists threaten to harm us physically just because of our political or religious beliefs, then the time has come for appropriate level of self defense. That level of that defense should be based on the level of the physical threat. Most of us will do what we have to do to. protect our lives and our families. If that means shooting a whole bunch of these communist turds in self defense, so be it.


16 posted on 06/28/2018 7:02:36 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: teeman8r

Conservatives can fight back—effectively— without going down to the left’s dirty level. Ronald Reagan was good at that. The two Presidents Bush did not fight back at all — except at conservatives. Trump can, and most often does, fight back effectively, but he can also get into juvenile rhetoric.


17 posted on 06/28/2018 7:03:50 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: C19fan

Fight fire with fire!


18 posted on 06/28/2018 7:04:34 AM PDT by paintriot (Die with your boots on)
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To: Vigilanteman
I am not in favor of a war

Irrelevant. The war is already under way. Either we fight it by appropriate means as circumstances dictate, or we lose.

19 posted on 06/28/2018 7:04:43 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan

This author clearly never grew up on the streets of New Jersey and knows nothing about human nature. If you coddle the Left, they get stronger. If you retaliate hard, they wither and withdraw. This is not a cricket match.


20 posted on 06/28/2018 7:04:43 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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