I'm gonna rant. It's my day off. Then I'm going to the big city.
I admit I'm not on top of this so I Googled "definition Green Decoy" and got me an edumacation. Nothing good at the top, that's for sure. You don't get that kind of top line billing simply by being popular. Somebody's got their money out there.
Politics and money are a wily coyote. I remember back when "liberal" was a good and honorable term and thing to be. Then Newt Gingrich, et al, and the Republican Revolution and Limbaugh and the 1980s rolled around and it became a dirty word, so much so that even liberals started to stiff arm it. They became apologetic and changed to "progressive" and what not, on the defensive ever since. Our founding fathers, liberals every Fking one, are rolling in their graves.
My point here is not to argue "liberal" but to make clear what happens when you let the opposition define the terms of debate and, in reality, define you. Liberals should have stood up early on and poked a stiff, thick, hard, calloused finger in the chest of those pussy mfkers and called them out, violently if necessary, on their slimy, wily, monied, chicken-hawk, political BS.
Hunters, especially conservative Republican hunters, had better stand up on their hind legs and push back. And I mean push back
HARD, or you will lose who you are in the public eye. You will end up fighting rear-guard, defensive, responsive actions; making excuses and trying to clarify what it is that someone else said about you, denying you are Green, and besmirching the Green types who are with you on the land transfer issue (divide/conquer). You will have lost half the battle. Perception is reality.
You have to be smart, of course. You can't let them become the victims of bullying or they will play that card, point fingers, and complain about how mean and unreasonable and violent you (and the Greens) are and how that must mean they are right and you are wrong. But you can't take this crap lying down either.
Here's a fantasy: Get the best of your best of the blood sport side, who's killing credentials are unimpeachable, conservatives, Republicans, etc. who are in your camp. Then, get the Greenest of the Green on the other side, maybe PETA and others. Sit down and agree that regardless of differences, you all agree on the federal land transfer issue. Do public advertising, T.V. Commercials, together, side by side, laying out the agenda of the assholes. Basically saying: "We straight up hate each other, but . . ." Then call the transfer assholes out on their lies. Poke that finder in that chest,
hard, and call them balls-out liars to their face and challenge them, beg them, to sue you. You say "Want to call me a 'Green Decoy'? Yeah, right. I call you liar to your face. You call us a 'Green Decoy' again and we will sue you for . . . " Then the Green types say "If you say these conservative killers are in bed with us, then we call you a liar to your face. What are you going to do about it? 'Green Decoy' is a lie, told by dishonorable liars and cowards."
Of course you have some smooth PR type rework that fantasy so it doesn't come across as amateur hour (I'm no PR type and admit it sounds stupid), but you get my point. Part of Trump's appeal is he's in-your-face, with that finger in your chest. And, as some wag on here already said: The sting in rebuke is the truth.
Make it sting. Rock those assholes back on their heels, then push them down and kick them when they are down. Then, in your best Teddy Roosevelt voice, say "Bully! Please get up; for we must knock you down again! Bully!" If you don't send these fkrs packing once and for all, they will be back again, and again, and again. Sagebrush Rebellion Ground Hog Day. And you will always be on the defensive and making excuses.
End rant.
