Remember the old childhood rhyme? I’m old enough I learned to say, in a sing-song voice – Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me (you heard it just now, didn’t you?) Now, obviously, words can cause bad feelings, and wound emotions. But they cannot physically hurt you. Unless, like many of those on the left, you harm yourself upon seeing/hearing words.
There are so many truly sad videos of women cutting their hair, shaving their heads, cutting friends and family out of their lives, over politics. How does cutting your hair and shaving your head harm the over 50% of the country who voted for Trump (and portions of the other half who, I think, are now secretly glad he won)? How does that act harm Trump or Musk? So you shave your head and declare that you will not have sex with anyone, or bear children, for four years. What, exactly, does that accomplish, aside from announcing that you clearly have some issues to work on? You are not “proving” anything and you are only harming yourself.
There are X posts of men and women stating how angry they get when they see a red hat in the distance. They claim their “blood boils.” Going through life with your temper that close to the surface is simply not healthy – you are harming yourself. If you know someone who hits that level of anger over anything else, you’d be telling them to go to anger management classes. Why are you not telling these individuals the same? Every single health and well-being report states, unequivocally, that maintaining such high levels of cortisol in your system is unhealthy over both the short and long-term. Why are people doing this to themselves? Destroying your health will not harm Trump. And if you physically lash out and assault someone wearing a MAGA hat, you can be charged with assault. And that will definitely turn your life upside down.
I’ve had people tell me that they “don’t tolerate intolerance.” Okay. But point to the intolerance you’re not tolerating on the conservative/Trump-favoring side of things? What exactly is intolerant about deporting criminals who entered this country illegally? What is intolerant about deporting anyone who entered this country in an extra-legal manner? The mess that is our immigration process is an entirely different matter than people crossing the border while avoiding all official border entry points. What is intolerant about performing audits on all of the federal bureaucracy? What is intolerant about firing those bureaucrats who fail to properly perform their job duties (and undermining the boss is not properly performing your job, FYI). What is intolerant about dumping a set of rules (DEI) that encourages discriminatory hiring and promotion? You’re not intolerant of intolerance. You’re intolerant of change and intolerant of exposing fraud and corruption. You’re intolerant of a properly functioning system.
More words – the legacy media is complaining that they’ve been cut out of the much-sought-after places in the White House briefing room. They’re calling Trump a fascist for this (along with every other action he takes). No, it is most decidedly NOT a “violation of the First Amendment” to limit who gets to have a seat in the White House briefing room. How the hell do you arrive at that conclusion without being completely ignorant and self-serving? Again – calling Trump and Musk fascists, Nazis, and every other name you can think of… Does. Not. Hurt. Them.
Screaming at me, and others, flinging supposedly insulting names because we not only don’t have a problem with the audits and changes, we in fact actively support them… Does. Not. Hurt. Me.
If you truly want to stop these changes, if you truly think that auditing the federal bureaucracy, and by extension shrinking the size of government, if you truly think that federal workers losing their jobs (something that’s happened to the rest of us at least a few times) is so terrible and awful, then you have to come up with (and pay attention here) arguments that are:
- Logical
- Reasonable
- Achieve the same result
I’m betting that’s not possible. And of course, you will have to reveal just why you think the current actions are “fascist” in nature – given that every fascist in history has expanded government and not reduced it.
Are there going to be mistakes? Of course. One does not simply walk into Mordor without fighting through horrifying nightmares (when you think about it, Shelob’s a pretty good metaphor for the federal bureaucracy, isn’t she?). There will always be mistakes. The key is to recognize and own mistakes.
But those mistakes are fairly easily rectified, and many have already been reversed. And guess what? DOGE, Musk, and Trump have admitted they made mistakes and will likely make more. They are not perfect and have never claimed to be perfect. So throwing that accusation around does you no good either. Words can never hurt me, my friends, words can never hurt me.
Words – fascism: Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State. By fighting to maintain the bureaucracy, you are advocating Mussolini’s definition of fascism. That word does not mean what you think it means. Why do you support fascism?
Again – tell me why, without using the words “fascism,” or “dictatorship,” or “unconstitutional,” you are afraid of auditing the bureaucracy?
I will keep asking this question until I get some sort of kinda sorta reasonable answer: What are you so afraid of?
The world is changing as it does every so often in human history. You have two choices:
- Become flexible and adapt to new circumstances or
- Remain rigid and fixed and become broken, obsolete and powerless.
I’m choosing to become flexible and adaptive. It’s better in the long run and far more fun in the short run. And words can never hurt me.
