Is Obama Calling Up His Ant Colony ?
…contributed by Authoress Thank You

Ever tried to dissuade an ant colony from marching into your kitchen and swarming your sugar bowl?  Perhaps – in this effort to save the sugar and your sanity – you have: spread ant poison around the door and window casings; stepped on a few in their conga-line-type invasion; gone outside to seek their home base, then dumped boiling water on said home base; prayed they would be terrified by the huge anteater poster you hung from the ceiling; talked to them quite reasonably, explaining why it’s your sugar and home they are invading and would they kindly conga their little selves right back out the door (or window); and / or called an exterminator.

Viewing this quite broadly – and all silliness aside – you will note that nowhere have we removed the incentive… i.e., the sugar.  Seriously, why should we?  It’s our sugar, in our home, for our use and purposes, bought with our earned money.  Yet, removing the sugar – and all accompanying traces – is the only absolute way to ensure they won’t keep hanging around and telling their offspring you are the sugar lode.  So, we put the sugar in an airtight container, stash it in the fridge, mop the floor and disinfect the counters… but we don’t stop buying sugar.

Liberals are like the ant swarm.  They decide – emotionally, never logically or rationally – they want something.  Often it’s your something.  Nothing will deter them from trying to wrest it from you by any means available.  So, the question becomes, how do you communicate effectively with the liberal swarm when they are in the conga line, headed for your sugar (i.e., money, freedoms, security, and the like)?

Following, I provide several applications to sound communication with liberals.  Please note that, like communicating with ants, I make no guarantees or promises that these steps will work, but if you have a person with manners and civility, you might be able to posit some truths whose results might keep them out of your sugar bowl.

1. Identify your communicant; is he a socialist/Marxist, she a rabid femi-nazi with a liberal flapping wing and axe to grind, a mindless youth who loves to hear the current liberal rhetoric stream from his mouth since it proves daddy was wrong – he does have a brain after all, or a ‘centrist’ liberal who merely goes where the majority wind is blowing that day?  There are now so many gradients of political leanings; it behooves you to know with whom you are dealing.

2. If the person to whom you are attempting to speak is identifiable as any type liberal, assume they are acting from a center of emotion (I want, I need, I feel) rather than evidentiary logic.

3. Building on numbers 1 and 2, preceding, avoid drawing ‘first blood’ - any inference to insult, slander, or condescension.  Please note that I am anti-PC’ness – as anyone who knows me will assure you – yet you must wait for the liberal to smack you in the face with the dueling glove.  If you don’t, you immediately seal the lib’s ears with prejudices, myths, and lies about ‘rabid right-wingers’ and ‘that group on the right who love to war and hate the poor’.

4. Keep your points simple, use as many single syllable words as possible, and never combine two in the same sentence or single breath.  Polysyllabic dialog confuses the liberal and he/she then reverts to insults in order to keep daddy from knowing they really are uneducated, after all (even if daddy has been gone for a decade or more).

5. Keep bringing the discussion back to point; if you don’t know your point, write it down and keep looking at it while you talk to the liberal.  For example, if the subject is Sarah Palin as a public servant, keep your simple, singular points strictly on Palin’s service record.  When you let yourself be drawn into discussing how much her pantyhose cost and how often she put runs in them during her campaign, you’ve lost all hope of educating the liberal.  Hear ears slam shut, watch eyes sparkle … run, conservative, run…

6. Frequently restate what the liberal says.  For example, I had a liberal tell me he thought I was ignorant.  In the context of our discussion, he could have meant I was ignorant of all sorts of things from the quintessential meaning of e=mc2 to what really constitutes plagiarism (would Joe Biden have the definitive answer to that one?).  I restated his assumptive statement that I was ignorant, asking him for confirmation that my assessment was correct.  Just in hearing that rewording, he realized the broad sweep of his statement and honed it for me; I was ignorant of the beneficial change Obama was bringing to the nation.  Sadly, and despite all his best efforts to communicate this excitement to me, I must report that I still am.

7. Finally, once you know (and you always know, if you’re paying any attention at all) they aren’t teachable or open to any ideas except their own, say so very clearly and shut them down.  Dissever yourself from them.  To continue to argue, sling mud, try to win points, or otherwise kick sand around the sandbox serves no purpose except to steal IQ points from your side.  Say so long and mean it; do not respond to any other attempts to goad you into a retort or reaction.  You only have so much time in life to effect positive change and conservatives know there’s a mountain of work to be done if we hope to turn this country back to its roots of conservative, God-based integrity.

If you have to resort to #7, you have essentially sealed the sugar and put it in an invasion-proof container.  Like ants who swarm because of a chemical communication process, the typical liberal takes his/her cues from the biggest, loudest, and most aggressive one in the group.

Take the high road, the road less traveled.  Arguing with an intractable liberal is tantamount to sitting an ant down and discussing the Constitution.
The results are the same: you still have an ignorant ant who wants the sugar in the bowl and who will bite, sting, and swarm to get it.