When pussies learn to fight, the bullies back off

Dear friends that said Democrats shouldn’t “fight back”,

When I was in 3rd grade I got beaten up a lot at the bus stop by Keith Brown. When my parents brought this to the attention of the Principal, Keith claimed that I had picked the fight with him. Being half his size this was laughable, but the principal believed them. It went on for months. Finally my next door neighbor, who was a cop, gave me some fighting lessons. One thing he showed me was how to give a solid punch right to the nose. Just summon all my strength, take a deep breath, aim, and connect. The secret of the nose-punch is that if you connect, there’s a good chance that you’ll cause a nose bleed. A nose bleed isn’t going to kill anyone but it sure looks impressive when the bully comes to school with blood all over his shirt. It was exactly what I needed.

The next time Keith picked on me, I took a boxer’s stance. He hit my shoulder with a right punch. I countered: Deep breath, aim, *pow*. Nose bleed. I had connected.

Of course, now the Principal was convinced that I was the bully and it was Keith that needed protection but it was a moot point: Keith never picked on me again. Nobody picked on me for 5 years. That was 8th grade. As you can imagine, *pow* and Michael Gormley was walking out of the boy’s locker room at Frelinghuysen Junior Highschool crying like a baby.

I haven’t had to hit anyone since. I haven’t had to.

I have a profound understand the importance of pussies learn to fight back. Electronics repair geek Bernard Getz shooting punks on a NY subway car in self-defense, the geek in John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club bringing a gun to school to scare the jocks that were picking on him... these are totally different experiences for me. These are people learning to fight back and being misunderstood by a society full of bullies that have grown up to be federal prosecutors and highschool Principals.

For the longest time I’ve been writing in this LJ that Democrats need to stop being pussies and fight back. Oh, you’ve told me “it’ll just make things worst” and “the Democrats will just look like they’re whining”. I was told that taking the day off to help disenfranchised African-American voters from Ohio share their experiences with the Senate would somehow send the wrong message. (If “black votes should be counted” is the wrong message, then what is the right message?).

Well guess what? The Democrats have started fighting back and it’s working. This week is the tipping point. In just this last week you’ll find:

• Bush’s plan to End Social Security is losing support.
• The attacks on Harry Reid have stopped because Reid fought back instead of being a Democrat pussy.
• Republicans are backing off of their “nuclear threat” to get rid of the filibuster because the Democrats have pushed back.
• Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) are trailing Democratic candidates who haven’t even announced yet because Democrats aren’t acting like pussies that are afraid to kick the playground bully’s ass once in a while.
• Democrats rumored to be planning retirement have announced they’re running for re-election.

I’ll repeat what I said months ago... if fighting for what you believe in is wrong, what is the solution? To fight for the other side?

Of course not. The solution is to stop being pussies. Every wimp has to learn how to fight someday. Being anti-war doesn’t mean you can’t fight for what you believe in. Being pro-peace doesn’t mean you can’t be aggressive about winning politically.

--Tom

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