America, at least in my lifetime, has been the home of the brave and the land of the big mouth. One of my first media memories was the commie-hating big-mouth senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, a master at waving a bunch of papers into a television camera and shouting, “Here is a list of 4,000 communists in the State Department!” He was a trendsetter.

As we all know, because he wants us to know, the current biggest big mouth is Donald Trump, but he is only the latest incarnation of what I would call the “Golden Age of Big Mouths.” Starting with Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, and Al Sharpton, not to mention the great Muhammad “The Mouth” Ali, we now have so many shouters shouting over each other’s shouting that there should be a TV awards show devoted to the best of the blowhards. Donald Trump could host.

There is a lesson here for the disability community, especially if it wants to be heard beyond the echo chamber of its own, excuse-me-I’m-disabled small voice. To get anywhere in this culture, you have to have a human megaphone that the media can’t ignore. Take the queen of the Tea Partiers, Sarah Palin. Nothing can shut her up. Who can ignore someone who says we “should invade Ebola” or send all illegals home across “the Mexican Sea.” And let’s not forget wild man hatemonger Ted “Obama is a subhuman mongrel” Nugent. On a slow news day, call Ted.

The disability crowd needs its own Mr. Cat Scratch Fever. To achieve this, I propose the establishment of a Leadership School for Young Crips where go-getters can learn the tricks of public incivility. The lesson plan is simple: insult, insult, insult. Memorize the insult lexicon — loser, nut job, moron, hack, lightweight, and the always popular “disgusting fat pig.” (You can then advance to tongue twisters like “barking moonbat” and “nattering nabobs of negativism.”) The power of the public insult is not in who you insult, but in your swing-for-the-fences gall. Don’t just say someone is “weak.” Say he’s a sissy-face bedwetter.

Professional insulting demands dedication and discipline. It was no accident that Hair Trump escalated onto the presidential stage calling immigrants rapists and murderers. He no doubt has a staff of insult writers locked in a room, looking for the right occasion to call Marco Rubio “a beaner from Brownsville,” even though he’s neither a beaner nor from Brownsville.

The course load is heavy. Besides the usual subject areas of minorities, Hollywood crybabies, and the “lame-stream” media, cracking the books would also include:

Insulting Other People with Disabilities. Now you’re breaking new ground. It’s too bad Rush Limbaugh did that arms-waving putdown of Michael J. Fox. Someone in a chair would have made it much more insulting. Be the first chair user to stand up and belittle chair-using Texas Governor Greg Abbott. “Hey, Gov. Tough Guy. You’re a jerk and a loser!” (I stole that from Trump.) Or, “Hey, Gov. Role Model, we should be soulmates, but first you’ve got to have a soul!”

Insulting Everyone without a Disability. Here’s where the fun begins. “Don’t stare, dorkhead. I might walk tomorrow but you’ll be ugly forever!” Nondisabled people are wusses, losers, jellyfish. The minute they see you, they go into guilt mode. “Hello, my good friend,” they whimper, “so good to see you, I don’t know you, but here’s $5.” Wait for them to do something nice, then pounce.

Most people with disabilities seem trained to be meek and mild, to not start trouble nor point attention to themselves. As a big mouth, do the very opposite. Do start trouble. Someone disagrees with you at a party, call them out, loudly, as a heartless bigoted biped. Always point attention to yourself. Start each sentence with “I can’t walk,” as in “I can’t walk but at least I don’t slither around like the sniveling sniveler you are.” While your opponent reels, everyone else will applaud you for “saying it like it is” and having the guts to be “non-PC.”

Get on CNN, insult any public figure with gusto, and you’ll get your own show called “The No Sniveling Zone.” Then mount a presidential bid on the slogan “All Nondisabled People Suck and Should Be Rounded Up and Shipped Across The Canadian Sea to Canada.”

Eat your heart out, Sarah Palin.