Another Justification for Civility Bites the Dust
We’ve all heard it countless times — Democrats must be careful about how they behave for fear of how Republicans will react. People went too far protesting Brett Kavanaugh. We shouldn’t be impolite. We shouldn’t talk about civil war because they will use any talk of violence to ratchet up their own violent response.
So much for that idea. Some fuckwitted crank mails some primitive PVC bombs to a bunch of Democrats and liberals, and Republicans up and down Cable News Row are blaming — who else? Democrats. So you see, it doesn’t matter how Democrats behave, because any bad behavior, even theirs, will be blamed on Democrats and used as an excuse to ratchet up their violent response. Heads they win, tails we lose.
I won’t even get into the obvious parallels between the suggestions that Democrats tread softly with the kind of rhetoric one hears from the abused spouses of alcoholics. “Don’t do anything to make Daddy angry” doesn’t work for them, either.
The moral: Don’t waste time or thought on how Republicans will respond. You already know how they’ll respond. Stop hoping that this time they’ll admit they’re wrong. They will go to their graves before that happens.
Could not agree more, long past time to get in their collective faces, to fight back and mean it. As such we can count Carper and Coons out. Like usual.
Do you really think it’s a good idea to go after Republicans with violence? They have all the guns
@Arthur: Thanks for adding that one to the list of reasons not to rile them up.
Again, if they decide to start shooting, it will be regardless of what we do. If that’s what they want to do, they’ll find an excuse. At this point they might not even bother.
Whatever horrible thing you think they might do, just assume they will do it and prepare accordingly.