That’s why they won’t win. Until they’re willing to use “balls” instead of “gumption”, until they’re willing to lose the pearl-clutching hypocrites who use the n-word in private, until they’re willing to call the motherfuckers out in the moment by the rightful insult, they won’t win.

Cause that’s what normal people do. They cuss, they swear. They don’t use obtuse references or reverse psychology to lay high-brow insults that sound like inside jokes. They lay it out so everybody knows you’re a fuck.

Even Mark Twain was considered profane by some but they gave their attention.

It takes scarce vision to see that we are now striding through the pages of history, a time when nary a kind word will be written of those who said “not me”, or “business as usual”. In the quieter years of our twilight, children will hear of the troubles we faced and plaintively ask “why didn’t anyone do anything?” And the only ones among that crowd of elders who can stand tall will be the few, indeed, who had gumption.