Ideations of Violence

PART 4/6

Within the theatre community, the arguments have fomented for years of a plainly anti-intellectual ilk, and folks thought it the better part of valor to take some sort of a high road than to get down in the mud with their real enemies and beat them back into the stone age.  

When you're browbeating a bigot, it's still just a form of verbal violence and now we know that's not real violence, so let's just do unto others as they've done unto us for a change, maybe?

Take that other fist out from behind your back, intelligentsia of America. 

When we stop playing gentle as the dove in favor of wise as the serpent for a little while, see if the correction doesn't practically make itself.

American liberals ceded their moral authority to a generation of know-nothings.  

That's how history will probably remember it.  

We 'compromised', 'made nice', 'accommodated' them too much.  

I encouraged my fellow Americans to engage in dialogue with those who disagreed with our positions through civil discourse, if not drama, if not song, and many were the ones who chose to retreat from the challenge of VERBAL CONFRONTATION.  

As if loving one's friends and neighbors required us to placidly watch them die.  

Seriously, the people who presume to lecture us about 'violence' in politics run and hide in fear from the word 'confrontation' even where civil discourse is plainly and explicitly offered.

I know.

I've tried.