Recently I was asked by Bandit to write an article about how the GOP lacks confidence. I have been thinkin’ on this task for a few days.
Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, you have to admit one thing about him… he never lacks self assurance. You could park a Mack truck in the shadow of his ego. While many naysayers feel like this is a character flaw, the truth is, it’s actually one ore thing he has in common with the legends who built and shaped America. Most of them believed in, believing in yourself. Teddy Roosevelt said, ‘Believe you can and you’re halfway there” and Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” It would behoove the members of the Republican party to emulate Trump’s self-reliance, and wear it proudly the same way they do the red hats and blue suits with red ties. This week’s elections ushered in a socialist Muslim as the mayor of New York City, showed us very plainly what happens when the GOP cowers in the corner like an abused wife in a Lifetime movie.
For far too long the GOP has allowed the liberal media to metaphorically beat them down…. And that lack of conviction, and the cowering in the face of the brutal, battering confidence of the Democrats, has lead to a repetitive scenario where the GOP can’t seem to hold their own on ballots that aren’t offering the name Trump as a selection. We BELIEVE in him… so now its time to believe in ourselves the same way. As Henry Ford said… If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
We know in our hearts that the Right is right. We know there are only two genders. We know the laws regarding the border. We know it’s wrong to sexually groom or mutilate children. We know it’s wrong to ridicule God and murder unborn babies and to vote in Socialists as Mayor of the very heart of American capitalism. We just lack the confidence to stand up and shout it from the rooftops. We fear reprisal. We fear being called racists or bigots or Nazis. Well, sticks and stones, guys. Rise above the chatter with your belief in your own convictions. Stop hiding under your desks. Stop being the ‘silent majority’….. Be like Trump.
America was FOUNDED on unbridled confidence accomplishing things that no one thought possible. Paul Revere screaming through the streets on thundering hooves… minute men hiding in the bushes till they saw the whites of their eyes… Confederates taking on a whole damned government.. slaves crawling through the mud with bloodhounds on their heels…Suffragists starving themselves till they earned the right to vote… wagon trains of settlers struggling and dying across the West.. sometimes we won.. sometimes we lost… but always, ALWAYS, we believed in our causes and were willing to fight to the death for them. Life is tough, my darlings, but so are y’all.
– Amy
