Maybe the time for "Gentle Governing" is over

I think you’d love my pinned thread about the lord of the flies generation. This is a generation that grew up without any parents at all bc they grew up online and no one had dealt with “online” being a place before. We now have adults who never had any discipline. It’s bad.

Long past Nick. It baffles me how Republicans act in the house and Senate. It's almost like they're in on it.

“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.” ― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

This is what happens when you don't spank your kids.

I’ve been saying similar. Your teenager is skipping school, drinking doing drugs and being violent. You can 1) Let the kid do what they want to achieve temporary peace OR 2) Discipline and fight the fight then and there as it will only escalate into far worse later.

The problem is that the other side is already fighting and has decided that the conversation is over. You can’t reason with them anymore. That time has passed us by. I wish it wasn’t true, but they are in open revolt against our country. They’re no longer Americans

One side of the conversation has already decided that it's not worth having. It's going to get worse before it gets worse.

The government is not our daddy, you stupid fuck.

I thought you to be a libertarian? This sounds exactly like what an authoritarian statist would say. How about instead of cracking skulls, we pressure elected officials to defund the benefit apparatus that illegals and left wing organizations benefit from?

That was never the dynamic in my home. My oldest tried that ONCE. I dragged him by his arms. Dad showed up, grabbed his legs, and we carried him out of the store. He trained his siblings in the art of avoiding a arse whoppin' 😅

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Absolutely nailed it!

Exactly. People learn quickly to repeat behavior that gets their desired outcome. We don't negotiate with terrorists.

The problem is ICE officers are jumpy (with good reason) and they're making rash decisions. Renee Good I completely understood, Alex's, not as clearly. Pause to regroup with ICE officers to avoid unnecessary legal force. A toddler isn't going to get shot in the head.

Who's a good little paid toady? You are, Nick!

Dad needs to get the rod out…

Daddy Trump has lost interest

You sir just explained it perfectly, the child has to be taught that when they choose the actions they are choosing the consequences.

or maybe we're at the Wall stage of Addiction Withdrawal ... the cravings have returned along with hostility aimed at the people who took their drugs away. (the addicts are the Dems, Trump is taking their unchecked unchallenged corrupt political machine away) ... but I do like your spoiled brat analogy ... it fits

Excellent post except for one issue . One parent is openly encouraging the child to behave poorly and blaming the other parent when the child is disciplined. That is the reality we are facing. The time has come to discipline both child and bad parent. Protesters interfering must be sent to federal lockup.

I have said this many times! Stop crying to your mother until you get what you want! Thats not how life works. We don’t negotiate with terrorists. And we turned around and went home with no icecream. My wife was driving! 🤭 That’s how parents back each other!

This ladies and gents is called an Anology, and a rather eloquent one at that!

Why can't ICE get a nationwide restraining order requiring protesters stay 200ft away while they'd doing their duty, buildings they use, lodging, or agent's homes? This should quickly de-escalate things. Well, or result in the arrest of hundreds of protesters.

Yes, this. My kids didn't throw fits in public because I'd whoop their ass in front of everyone without hesitation. It only takes once early on. It may take more because they've gotten away with it for so long.

#NickReiner poster child for your analogy

I do not know if you realize it, but ICE fits the tantrum throwing baby to a tee in this analogy. Except these babies tantrums get deadly while recording. You are right the behavior does need to end now.

In Minnesota, federal immigration enforcement under Operation Metro Surge has been met with escalating rhetoric, obstruction, and protest, raising the political temperature around lawful enforcement. That escalation carried a foreseeable risk of violence, not because enforcement intensified, but because confrontation was encouraged and amplified. Now that tragedy has occurred, many of those same actors are using the outcome as moral leverage to halt enforcement altogether. This raises hard questions about who is being protected, what is being hidden, and who benefits from deflecting enforcement at this moment. That is not compassion; it is a systemic strategy.

It needs to be mentioned here that both "parents" in your analogy are, to a degree, on the "Right." All those on the left are not only for total appeasement, but they are ultimately collaborating and kindred with the little brat/monster and its tantrums! There is no "common ground" to be reached with them!

The other side of the conversation

Its True.

How are you this fucking stupid?