I'm done dancing around playing nice. I'm done looking for the high road. I'm done with it. I'm done

[MADem]

42. We don't have to lie--we can tell the truth but just do it forcefully.

We don't have to cheat or be morally repugnant, either. All we have to do is take the fucking gloves off. Screw the Nice Guy approach. Call the people who say assholish things assholes. Call miserable little fuckers fuckers. Call liars liars, call cheats cheats. Enough of this "Difference of opinion" shit--they are wrong, we are right and that's all there is to it.

Children should not go to bed hungry and poorly educated. Women deserve health care. EVERYONE deserves health care. People should be able to live with dignity and comfort into their old age until they die. The rich should not be allowed to get richer while the poor get poorer. Everyone should be able to find work, and the goddamn laborer is worthy of his or her hire.

This shit is basic and we need to start pounding the podium when we talk about it.

So if you can't handle calling a shitbird a shitbird, telling scum they are scum, step aside and leave it to those of us who can manage to raise our voices and get our hands dirty.