STREET FIGHT, NOT A GARDEN PARTY
A contributor to another forum, offering Donald Trump and his supporters gratuitous advice on how to conduct his campaign, gave us the following:
"Republicans should avoid insulting opponents. He [Trump] should not exaggerate. He should avoid mention of having the last election stolen...
My response:
While you're at it, why don't you also stipulate that pigs should fly?
In days past I used to characterize another participant in that same forum as a “snot-nosed, sneering, disingenuous, non-responsive, smoke-blowing, fatuous, vacuous, cheap-shot pompous ass”. When he complained that I was insulting him, I challenged him to select any one of those descriptors and prove me wrong, with the promise that I would apologize and repent in sackcloth and ashes if he could. He couldn’t. I didn’t.
My attendant argument was this: when you speak the demonstrable truth about an individual - when you accurately characterize him or her - it is impossible, in the world of objective truth, sound reason and logic, to depict such a characterization as an insult. If a man beats his wife and I call him a wife-beater, I have not insulted him, I have simply spoken the truth. By my definition, truth can never be an insult. Those who are offended by the truth are not insulted by it but instead are revealed by it - angry because the truth blows the cover on their evil.
Accordingly, if I characterize Kamala Harris as "a cackling commie dingbat" as I did in the headline of my last Substack post - each one of those descriptives fulsomely supported in the video record - I have not insulted her, but simply spoken the easily defended truth about her.
Are we, then, out of some false sense of decorum, to refrain from speaking the truth about Democrat political opponents who do not hesitate to lie through their teeth every day about Donald Trump and his supporters? "Hitler! Dictator! He wants to be KING! Insurrectionist! Election denier! Threat to democracy! He CANNOT be allowed to be president again! Put a TARGET on him! He must be stopped! His supporters are domestic terrorists! " All of this empty calumny has been spewed by Trump's enemies and repeated ad nauseam by the propagandistic mainstream media.
Shall we then not speak the truth about these demons? Indeed, I think there never has been a time when plain speaking of truth was more necessary. Time to call a spade a spade. Street fight, not a garden party - and everything that matters is at stake. Our seditious, treasonous, deceitful, America-hating fifth column enemies know this and play by brutal, amoral rules - no holds barred - appropriate to the existential conflict we are in - a conflict they fully intend to win, whatever it takes - all the while hoping we, governed by some delusional sense of decency, will refrain from speaking the truth about them.
I am reminded of my brief course in karate taken many years ago in college. Going in, all the class members had to be disabused by the instructor of their natural sense of fair play. You'd never poke an opponent in the eye, would you? Never kick him in the groin or hit him while he's down, would you? After teaching that one should always do everything possible to avoid a fight in the first place - including run away - the instructor pointed out that, when you have no choice and your life is at stake, you have only one goal, and that is to win, to save your life by any means necessary. Indeed, as he taught us, some of the very best ways to win a fight include poking your opponent in the eye, kicking him smartly in the groin and definitely hitting him when he is down to make sure he doesn't get back up and attack you again (I remember being taught a karate move intended to pop out an opponent's eye).
In our current circumstance, we are in a life-and-death struggle not just for our individual lives but for the very life of our great free country and the precious God-given liberties it was founded to protect - liberties our seditious, treasonous, America-hating enemies seek to destroy. Shall we call a spade a spade, be hard-nosed realists and play by the rules our enemies and the conflict itself have defined, or hobble ourselves with naive ideas about being polite, worry about who might be offended, refuse to speak the truth about these traitors, and thus supinely cede the high ground to our foes?
Don't suppose that I am suggesting we - America's patriotic, law-abiding, decent citizenry - should stoop to the Godless, intellectually, morally and spiritually degraded level our seditious fifth column Democrat opposition inhabits, or employ the same lying, lawless, deceitful tactics they employ every day in pursuing their traitorous, country-wrecking political ends. Such means, it hardly needs to be said, are beneath honest, decent, God-fearing people and, happily, are unnecessary in the fight against the evil these demons seek to impose upon us.
In this great, existential conflict, we have one supreme weapon that does not require us to abandon our principles and wallow in the deceitful mud with the Democrats. That weapon is more than powerful enough to put down all the corruption and lying machinations of the deceitful demonic enemy seeking to commandeer America.
That weapon is the truth - the courageous, determined speaking of things as they really are and really work. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, truth has the power to blow away all the satanic lies and deceit of America's seditious leftist enemies, like the rising sun sweeps away the morning dew. This of course assumes there is still a majority of honest, decent people in America - I believe there is - and some left among us with the courage to stand up and speak the truth. As devastatingly effective is the speaking of truth against the machinations of evil, we have the comfort of knowing truth-speaking, by definition, never requires deceit, never injures honest, decent people and is never unfair.
Only evil people find an enemy in the truth.
Boiled down to its essence, the conflict raging among us simply one between the truth and a lie.
All we need to win is people to speak the truth and people to hear it.
This calls to mind the habit Jesus had of speaking the truth about the Pharisees and other elitist leading parties in Jewish society of his time - calling them white-washed sepulchers, all nice and well-kept on the outside, but inwardly full of all manner of corruption. Of course, this frank speaking - this speaking of the truth - got him nailed to a cross because the people he was speaking about - the prevailing Jewish leadership - were indeed evil but also powerful and were not about to tolerate having the cover blown on their evil. Jesus personally paid a horrendous, unspeakable price for his truth-speaking, but the greatest good ever done on earth also flowed from it. With his stripes, we are healed. All of us who will...
God is the Father of Truth, Satan the father of lies...
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
The question we face today, both individually and as a society, is the same faced by Jewish society in Jesus's time: do we as a people have the intellectual, moral and spiritual backbone and integrity to tolerate and welcome the speaking of truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may be, or, as in Jesus's day, will we stone the prophets and kill the messengers? Indeed, in England today, people are being arrested for exercising their right of free speech - for tweets the authorities don't like... How long before the same thing begins to happen here?
As I have previously noted, what is really going on among us today is not a political contest between Trump and the Cackling Commie Dingbat but a weighing in the cosmic balance of the intellectual, moral and spiritual character of the whole people - right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, good vs. evil, light vs. darkness.
I ask again, what will the Finger of God write on America's wall on November 5th?
But wait! If calling Kamala Harris "a cackling... commie... dingbat" (each of these three words is a separate link), is not an insult but a simple statement of truth, what then is an insult?
As a classic example of a true insult, I like the exchange between Winston Church and Lady Aster. "Winston, you're drunk!" said Aster at a social gathering. "Yes," retorted Winston, "and you're ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober!"
Now, that is an insult!
Torquemada