LEARNING TO SAY “NO”

Alexander the Great once said that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word, “No.”  Some 2.000 years later, Winston Churchill, quoted Alexander, warning: “Let not that (the inability to say “No”) be the epitaph of the English speaking peoples.”

Americans are the greatest example, in the English-speaking. world, of people who are losing their freedom as they lose their ability to say “No.” This demonstrated by the general response lately given to the woke movement, overreaching government, Muslim bullying and other things equally glaring and egregious.

The Obama and Biden administrations were expected to and were on the verge of, bringing Americans to heel like a pack of servile dogs to their masters. We were given a taste of what saying “No” could mean for us in terms of ostracism, loss of livelihood, and fines and/or imprisonment. Like the Asians in Alexander’s day we were becoming people unwilling and unable to pronounce the word, ‘No.’” 

Unlike the people of Asia and elsewhere, Americans have historically been people able and willing to say “No” — especially to overreaching, tyrannical government, as demonstrated by our Revolutionary War. Thomas Jefferson once said what needs to be remembered today: "The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them."

We need to get good at saying “No” again—“No” to democrats, progressives, liberals, woke ideologues and other Leftist-communists; “No” to foreigners who come here intending to impose their ways and wills upon us; “No” to lawbreakers —whether they are scrambling across our borders or seated in Congress or as judges in our courtrooms, etc. It’s time to say “No” to a multi-tiered justice system that punishes the same crime one way when committed by an average citizen, and another way for celebrities or for those politically "connected."

Its time for parents to say, “No” to entitled-minded, disrespectful children, and to any effort to usurp parental authority; “No” to people who want to simultaneously be sexually irresponsible and kill their babies; “No” to ignorant and ill-motivated people of color who accuse others of being the racists that they themselves are; “No” to those who lay claim to anything, or a charge against anyone, simply on the basis of skin color. It 's time for young people once again to be taught to say “No” to those who show up with a drink or a drug or as a date obviously wanting to use them for their own profit or pleasure. 

Americans desperately, immediately, need to start getting good again at saying “No” to bad people, philosophies and practices.  People become slaves who are unwilling to say “No.”