We're So Worried About Offending Oppressors That We Never Stand Up For the Oppressed
Conservatives are allowed to get away with murder and it has to be stopped
The way it used to be is dead and gone forever. I used to hold myself to a basic standard of decorum. I've bit my tongue so many times I'm surprised I can still speak at all.
No more. The ship is going down, and I’ve decided to scream all the way to the bottom. I’m not going to respect your demand that I die in silence because the noise of my protest ruins your enjoyment of my murder.
The problem is that in the United States of America, we're conditioned to keep the peace with oppressors. We can't say anything that will make them feel uncomfortable.
Why is it that we never stand up and demand justice for the oppressed?
When it comes to feelings, we only care about the feelings of evil people. Consider the look of pained frustration that crosses the face of the Vice-President every time somebody throws his bullshit back at him.
Why do oppressive people think we're going to back down when they threaten us with tears? They make us cry all the time. They sit around laughing about it.
I think the time for biting our tongue has ended. We might as well speak, the world is only going to last another six months or so anyway. Besides, sitting quietly and enduring the slings and arrows of entitled assholes has only brought us misery.
What fools we were to stay silent! I can't help but wonder what we might have achieved if we'd protested in the past.
But no, we were pressured into keeping our peace under the promise that things “might get better.” They managed to make this work because there were little rays of sunshine along the way.
“See that?” the oppressors would say. “See that shining through! That means the dawn is about to break!”
But it was a lie in a never ending torrent of lies, and I think at this point the best thing we can do is make peace with that. Relinquish the sunken cost fallacy. Regain your power.
It's liberating too.
I think of my asshole conservative cousins. I grew up in Wisconsin, but this group of cousins grew up in the Confederate south. They didn’t consider themselves American citizens. Their allegiance was to racism and God and freedom and moonshine. They were all just awful people.
I had an uncle who remained illiterate until his death. He was never embarrassed or apologetic about it. Instead, he made us feel like we were fools for learning how to read. I used to have to hide that I could read around him because it would make him mad.
But I liked to read. Why should I have to suppress something I liked because it made him feel uncomfortable?
He only died a few months ago. Somebody told me and I had to search my feelings to decide what I felt about it. I decided it was indifference. That was a bit of a surprise to me.
Over the years, I've made an effort to reach out to people in my family who have done me harm. None of them have ever tried to reach out to me. Yet they're the first ones who come stomping up to find something wrong with whatever it is that I might say or do, or how I might dress.
You aren't standing patriotically enough.
These monstrous people work themselves into a rage. They want to find a reason to justify an act of violence. It's non-stop with them. They're a constant threat. Needless to say they vote conservative. All they can do is bitch about people who do things like read or learn mathematics or study or contribute to society.
Oh... how they hate us.
Whenever I'm around them, all they do is jaw at me. They babble and babble and babble. They guffaw. It's a mixture of guffawing and babbling.
Meanwhile, I sit there and take it because I know if I speak back I'll reduce them to tears. I haven't made a conservative cry for a while. Maybe I'll start. That might be a way to bring me joy. I'll just break those assholes down to nothing.
I can do it to. I grew up in an abusive family with delusional cousins who thought they were tough. None of them can read. I'll start with that.
The thing is, I would have taught them, but we never reached that level of comfort. They were too busy mocking me and physically attacking me and telling me I wasn't grateful or respectful enough.
“Did you even say thank you?”
The fathers and the brothers would all sit in a line and gang up to try and humiliate me. Two of them were divorced, two of them were perpetually single. It would have been so easy for me to shut them up by saying, “Your wife left you for a better man because obviously you weren’t man enough to satisfy her.”
But, naturally, I knew without saying that such language would have been considered “over the line.” All these tough guys and all they think about is controlling women, but you can’t ever criticize them. No, no.
Let’s start criticizing men. When these sexual assault artists send you unrequested pictures of their manhood, get them arrested. Track down their mothers and their wives.
It’s not so hard to get back at them. We just have to give ourselves permission to do it. Why not now when they are on the brink of destroying the world?
I can hear the conservatives protesting. “No! No! That's too much. We have boundaries. We have safe spaces. We've been triggered. Can’t you see that our abuses against you were only a game?”
Then call what we’re doing a game too. It’s just a game. The game is called “make a toxic asshole cry.” Playing this might make it worth allowing these asshats back into my life.
I'm just so tired of these odious conservatives flaunting their complete lack of decorum in our faces. They have a complete lack of integrity. They have a complete lack of respect. There is a complete absence of common decency.
And somehow we all got coerced into an abusive relationship where we allow them to get away with anything and we're the assholes if we respond.
Now they're rounding up children and sending them to concentration camps. They're stealing our social security. They've already stolen our bodily autonomy. They're firing all the veterans who were employed in federal jobs (federal jobs always give a preference to veterans).
Conservatives are betraying every single value they claim to revere. Every single one!
For some reason, our side is supposed to adhere to some illusion of decorum that hasn't existed for decades?
Bullshit!
The only reason conservatives win any interaction is because we take ourselves out of the game. They offer nothing. They achieve nothing. They do nothing. They stand for nothing.
They are a shit sandwich with a nothing burger on the side.
It's time that we stopped conceding every lie they tell. All they do is tell lies. They lie incessantly. They lie constantly. They lie maliciously.
They have all this time to come up with lies because they're loser parasites whose partners have left them for a better man. It's time we told them.
It's time for some tough love. Conservatives need a big serving of humble pie. We have to convince them it will taste a lot better than the shit sandwich they're trying to get all of us to eat.
Stop letting them off the hook. They certainly wouldn't do it if our positions were reversed.
Can't you see what they're trying to do? They're trying to drag us down into the mud hole they lack the ingenuity or work ethic to escape.
You don't want to go down there. There are no books down there. There is no reason. There is no enlightenment.
There are only frustrated conservatives whose wives left them because they were dissatisfied with their sexual performance. They guffaw and bray like farm animals. The only thing we have to do to make them cry is hold up a damn mirror.
Stop censoring your contempt of them or they'll destroy us all.
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Tell your MOCS and REPS exactly what you believe. Don’t cloak Evil in nice words and don’t cuss either (keep yourself safe). Their actions aren’t immoral, they are amoral and they are killing the very people who voted them into office and they need to hear that you know that. They need to hear that you know they aren’t holding their Oath to the Constitution and they need to hear your disgust, mistrust and that you aren’t mistaken. Stand strong and do not be so afraid you stammer—you aren’t alone—we are all together in this.
Agree, as long as we're not misogynists while we do it. We've got to radically change everything when we rebuild this country, and that's a good place to start.