By Douglas V. Gibbs
I wear a shirt emblazoned with the American flag, and a simple message: “If you can’t respect this flag, I’ll help you pack.” The response is always the same. People love it. They appreciate it and make comments about it to me because it speaks an undeniable truth. In response, however, the left will call you xenophobic, anti-immigrant, or worse if they see that kind of message. But this isn’t about hate. It’s about common sense.
Our society has been dangerously feminized. We’ve traded the grounded strength of a father for the nurturing embrace of a mother. Now before the outrage mob descends, hear me out. Women’s instinct to nurture and lead with emotion has its place in the decision-making process. But without the balancing forces of logic, analysis, and pragmatism, traditionally masculine traits, we’re flying blind. As the old saying goes, “Don’t expect me to mother our son. That’s what you are for. My job is to father him.” Both roles matter. Being decisive and willing to make hard choices isn’t “toxic masculinity.” It’s the backbone of a successful civilization. When human nature reveals its flaws, we must have the courage to push aside what damages the whole.
Think of the prodigal son. When he rejects the family structure, believing himself above its rules, what’s the right response? Let him go. Enabling his narcissism within the family only breeds more dysfunction. Send him on his way, and if he never returns, so be it. That doesn’t mean we don’t love him. It means we love the family enough to protect it from destructive behavior. But if, like the biblical prodigal, he returns humbled and ready to operate within the family’s rules? Then welcome him home with open arms.
America faces the same choice. We’ve built a system of liberty that has created unprecedented prosperity and freedom. We have a right to preserve it. But we face two enemies: those born here who despise our founding principles, and foreigners we welcomed with open arms who refuse to assimilate and instead work to transform America into the very systems they fled.
To them I say: If you hate this country so much, why did you come here? The answer is simple. Either they fled something worse, or they came as invaders… invaders determined to topple our steeple, burn our Constitution, and replace it with a mosque or a communist “power to the people” temple, or whatever else they left behind that stands in opposition to American Liberty. The very systems that created the misery they supposedly escaped.
If you hate America, then leave. I don’t care how that sounds. If someone enters my house, insults my wife, criticizes my furnishings, and tries to destroy my home, I don’t call them family. I throw them out. It’s time America remembered that sometimes the most loving act is saying “no” to those who would destroy what we’ve built.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
