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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCivility is soooo last year
Civility only works if everyone is playing by the same set of rules and has the same common core of human decency. Civility NEVER works with Nazi's. They take your civility and abuse you as much as they can until you wrestle power away from them again.
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Civility is soooo last year (Original Post)
Soph0571
Jun 2018
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Cha
(297,821 posts)1. Yeah, and let me just say..
Fuck the Civility Police
"The Red Hen owner is right. Stop defending decorum and do something about Donald Trump".
snip//
As Donald Trump lies and his anti-immigrant smears turn into child abuse, you can act like it's normal or, like the owner of the Red Hen, you can do something about it.
snip//
This near perfect example of misguided rage from the presidents backers has not stopped the civility police from leaping to the defense of our precious decorum. Nor has another pointed Trump attack on a private business, or his near daily Twitter missiles aimed at due process, the rule of law and special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation
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The problem is these critics are doing exactly what Trumps fans did. They're attacking those with no power for trying to make their voices heard amid the shrill screams of the biggest demagogue ever to sit in the Oval Office. They're aiming their rhetorical eggs in the wrong direction.
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The fear of giving Trump exactly what he wants and thus empowering him into even greater horrors is often used as a cudgel. Critics use it to bash almost anyone who makes the brave decision to risk rebuke from the most powerful man in the world a man who wields that power the way a 2-year-old wields a rattle and his rabid fans.
These lecturers imagine that a measured, monotone Jeb Bush-like response to the Trump administration will make this all stop somehow.
More..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/25/red-hen-owner-right-forget-decorum-stop-donald-trump-column/731475002/
"The Red Hen owner is right. Stop defending decorum and do something about Donald Trump".
snip//
As Donald Trump lies and his anti-immigrant smears turn into child abuse, you can act like it's normal or, like the owner of the Red Hen, you can do something about it.
snip//
This near perfect example of misguided rage from the presidents backers has not stopped the civility police from leaping to the defense of our precious decorum. Nor has another pointed Trump attack on a private business, or his near daily Twitter missiles aimed at due process, the rule of law and special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation
snip//
The problem is these critics are doing exactly what Trumps fans did. They're attacking those with no power for trying to make their voices heard amid the shrill screams of the biggest demagogue ever to sit in the Oval Office. They're aiming their rhetorical eggs in the wrong direction.
snip//
The fear of giving Trump exactly what he wants and thus empowering him into even greater horrors is often used as a cudgel. Critics use it to bash almost anyone who makes the brave decision to risk rebuke from the most powerful man in the world a man who wields that power the way a 2-year-old wields a rattle and his rabid fans.
These lecturers imagine that a measured, monotone Jeb Bush-like response to the Trump administration will make this all stop somehow.
More..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/25/red-hen-owner-right-forget-decorum-stop-donald-trump-column/731475002/
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)2. Even if we take the low road...
It is miles above their high road.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)3. We should rewrite the lyrics to The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
LOL
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)4. I wouldn't ruin a good song..
Solly Mack
(90,794 posts)5. K&R
Real boats rock.