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D.A.C.A.

Many many years ago when my kids were in high school, their weekend curfew was 11:00 pm. One Saturday night one one of my daughters did not arrive home till after 11:30. She said that it wasn’t really her fault because she was talking with her friend who needed emotional support. Fortunately my wife and I agreed, and unfortunately, for my daughter, she was grounded.

For the sake of discussion let’s assume that my wife and I had not agreed, and my daughter had one sympathetic and one unsympathetic parent. The unsympathetic parent, in essence, saying that rules were rules, and they needed to be enforced if they were to mean anything. The sympathetic parent in essence saying that since our daughter’s intent was good, that the kind thing to do would be just to forget the rules and come up with some sort of compromise.
In this sort of situation there would be two basic things that our daughter, an adolescent, would never have done if she expected opinion to go her way:
The first would be to demand an immediate lifting of the grounding restriction, and to further add that if she was grounded that she would hold both parents accountable.
The second would be to start yelling at the sympathetic parent and telling the sympathetic parent that no compromise other than the full lifting of her grounding would be acceptable. Anyone with any common sense recognizes this behavior would spell doom on two fronts:
Demanding anything is just going to make it more unlikely that either side is going to feel sympathy for your plight.
and
Yelling at and confronting the one that is on your side is the epitome of being a dumb-ass as confrontation never engenders sympathy!

Well on Monday September 18 those representing D.A.C.A. did both.

That afternoon in San Francisco a group of pro-D.A.C.A. demonstrators confronted Rep. Nancy Pelosi (the sympathetic parent) while she was attempting to give a pro-D.A.C.A. speech. They called her, “a liar” and eventually embarrassed her into leaving the podium after she pleaded with them, “Stop it! Stop it right now”!
That same evening a D.A.C.A. recipient (illegal alien), Ivan Ceja, was on the Tucker Carlson Show demanding that the U.S. be nice to them. Trying to be the adult in the room, Tucker Carlson said, “Follow a logical train of thought. What right do you have to demand anything?” To this Mr. Ceja responded that both parties (Rep. & Dem.) will be held accountable [if they did not get their way].”
From my perspective, both Mr. Ceja and the demonstrators at Mrs. Pelosi’s rally may have helped to make up the minds of those of us on the fence on this issue. They could not have acted more like spoiled brats if they had wanted to, and by making demands they could not have demonstrated any more clearly that they are not deserving of our empathy.

Should the real meaning of D.A.C.A. be:                                                                        Dumb-Ass Confrontational Adolescents ?

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