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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

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To: littleharbour
You won't be seeing President Trump chumming around with these clowns:
41 posted on 06/28/2018 7:15:45 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: al_c
What damage to our side has the likes of Maxine Waters

Has Mad Maxine cast even ONE vote in Congress that did not damage these United States?

42 posted on 06/28/2018 7:16:14 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, the party of fools are rioting. But again ... what lasting damage are they doing to conservatives? Is this going to rush in a blue wave or will it result in a red tide?


43 posted on 06/28/2018 7:16:44 AM PDT by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: Defiant

Alinsky’s rules do work.

They do have rules and morals. You just have to figure out what they are.

Example: Muslims extremists and women’s rights—they get to pick one and only one.


44 posted on 06/28/2018 7:16:57 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: NorthMountain

Not talking about her votes in congress. The topic here is civility ... and the dems have none.


45 posted on 06/28/2018 7:17:30 AM PDT by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: C19fan
The african version of "going high..."
Wish that pedophiles kidnap and abuse only your older children...


...disgusting perverts!

46 posted on 06/28/2018 7:17:41 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: al_c

So you think that this kind of thing can go unanswered forever?


47 posted on 06/28/2018 7:18:02 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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To: C19fan

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!

This is more of the same recycled HS that comes from the guys who want to do their backroom deals in the back room


48 posted on 06/28/2018 7:20:02 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Olog-hai

No. In fact I think it will be answered loud and clear ... with a new conservative justice on the Supreme Court and a huge conservative voter turnout later this year that will give us huge, bigly gains in Congress.


49 posted on 06/28/2018 7:20:03 AM PDT by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: Principled

Provocation is meant to provoke, obviously, and what the left wants is a response that would give them the excuse to go all out into violence. Giving them no response, the Bush strategy, is a waste of time; Trump is right to fight back, although sometimes I wish he’d aim a little higher and get at the true problem, which is not “in civility” or rude speech, but the fact that they are trying to provoke a breakdown in the social order.

And the leftists have been pretty effective: they’ve gotten away with riots, physical attacks on speakers they don’t like, at least one shooting (the GOP baseball game), violation of civil rights by refusing service to people, criminal harassment, etc. They are never prosecuted for these things and they should be.

And of course now we find out that even our law enforcement agencies have been taken over by the left and the law itself is being twisted and used against us (the FBI campaign to elect Hillary and, when that didn’t work, get rid of Trump, for example).

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. The left is turning the US into a rabble-run Third World style chaos, and the laws that exist to prevent that are not being enforced. They won’t stop it voluntarily, because it’s been allowed to go on unpunished too long.


50 posted on 06/28/2018 7:20:25 AM PDT by livius
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To: Defiant

“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.”
Always thought that that was the most briliant statement in regard to this situation.


51 posted on 06/28/2018 7:20:39 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (.)
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52 posted on 06/28/2018 7:20:41 AM PDT by ELS
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To: C19fan

Georgi Porgi BOORman. . perfect name for this wimp.


53 posted on 06/28/2018 7:21:35 AM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: C19fan

If we don’t fight fire with fire, we will lose.


54 posted on 06/28/2018 7:22:06 AM PDT by djpg
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To: PGR88
Certainly there is no need to match the Left’s vulgarity.

Can I have some of your stuff after your funeral?

55 posted on 06/28/2018 7:22:30 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: al_c
what lasting damage are they doing to conservatives?

Conservatives? I hear no conservatives. They are all civilly being silent as GOPe is instructing them to do.

56 posted on 06/28/2018 7:22:39 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Socon-Econ
Conservatives can fight back—effectively— without going down to the left’s dirty level. Ronald Reagan was good at that.

That was a much different time than we live in today. The open hostility and physical aggression towards Republicans and especially Conservatives is actively promoted and encouraged by Democrat Party Leadership, the lying liberal lamestream media propaganda machine, "Hollywood", print media, in our educational system and more.

We are harassed in our jobs, protests outside our homes, some cast our by their own families and more.

In the 1980's the Democrats were often referred to as the "loyal opposition" and the two political parties at minimum kept each other in check. (That point's debatable to be sure however the civility of being political opponents on the House and Senate floor during the day while socializing at night cannot be understated. Tip O'Neil worked with President Reagan as one example.)

What we have now is an entire political party that's become completely unhinged and their response to losing elections is to swing further left towards tyranny.

No, this battle won't be won in the manner Reagan did it, God rest his soul.

This battle is going to get physical. It's going to get lethal - this is where we're being pushed and my advice to you is you'd best be prepared to defend yourself and by that I expressly mean defend your very life.

57 posted on 06/28/2018 7:23:44 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: C19fan

The response to this article was written in 1775 by Patrick Henry,

“What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!.”


58 posted on 06/28/2018 7:23:47 AM PDT by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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To: PGR88
Just stick with the truth, and righteousness, and all will be well. There is no need to “compromise,”

yes. Now that you have shut up, the powers that be don't need to deal with you. They win. In politics the other side's silence is golden.

59 posted on 06/28/2018 7:24:54 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Sequoyah101

Even the Lord had his limits.

Christ held back the bully!!

So must we.

And thank God our side loves Life and will do all we can to avoid bloodshed.

This is evidenced when you see our military and how they behaved in the face of Islam terror.

The locals in Iraq loved the American soldiers.


60 posted on 06/28/2018 7:25:28 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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