Hate America?

[Mythsaje]

Where do these idiots get this idea? They fling it off the cuff as if it means something. "Liberals hate America."

Uh...no. We hate some of the shortsighted, wrongheaded, callous strategies the Right (Wrong) Wing espouses, the ones that leave thousands of American soldiers dead or maimed, tens of thousands of innnocent people dead or wounded, and returning vets without proper care because their benefits have been sliced to ribbons.

We hate the policies that pretend to consider education important, while underfunding any program that actually promotes educational opportunities.

We hate the policies that refuse to allow a living wage to American workers, yet subsidize what amounts to slave labor in other parts of the world.

We hate the fact that the media goes along with all the lies and disinformation this administration spews like vomit after sixteen straight shots of rotgut whiskey.

We hate that, despite having some of the best medical technology in the world, many Americans are one critical injury or illness away from abject poverty...or a lifetime of debt.

We hate the fact that some people use a religion that was originally meant to be all-encompassing (remember the compassion of Jesus Christ and compare it to the lack of compassion in those who claim to follow Him) to slander and spit upon people who don't see things the same way.

We hate that some people think it's better to be polluters than the kind of people who want to STOP pollution. We hate the fact that some people think it's better to be the folks throwing mercury into the water, or noxious filth into the air, than the kind of "treehuggers" who want to stop this sort of stuff.

No, we don't hate America. We just hate the sort of Americans that make us regret sharing a country with them, who do things in OUR name that we're not proud of, and say things that make us want to scream in absolute disdain "WE DIDN'T AGREE TO THIS!"

We LOVE what America could have been--the ideal that evil, selfish people have stolen away...we love the REAL America, not this changeling child those people have tried to put in its place.

Talk about the ultimate bait and switch.

[NMDemDist2]

1. I like Al Franken's take on this

Why do liberals like you, Al Franken, hate America?

Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way. You love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well. We also want it to do good.


http://www.duckdaotsu.org/al_franken.html

[sellitman]

6. Franken hit it on the head!

Thanks for posting!

[txindy]

7. I never read that before.

Franken nailed it. Absolutely.

[geek tragedy]

9. Bingo! The Rethugs respond most strongly to primitive and authoritarian

messages. They don't like to think.

[blondeatlast]

2. I love America. enough to offer her support when she has fallen

so that she may regain what she promised, and promises, to be.

She's in a dysfunctional phase, but that's why we're here--to offer her intervention if she cares to regain her dignity and strength.

And I truly believe she wants desperately to again shine a beacon of hope to the world.

[Double T]

3. If republicans show their love for America by dimantling.....

the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights, plunging this country into debt like it has never known, and invading another foreign country under totally false pretenses then I guess I don't really understand what LOVE of country means???

[WCGreen]

5. If that's love....

Take me to the battered spouse shelter....

[bling bling]

8. I was just about to post something similar.

You always hear the Republicans screaming, "if you don't like it, LEAVE", yet when they are in power they waste no time amending the constitution as their religion sees fit and hacking away at our rights to the benefit of the corporate government.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Nice rant. Kicked and nominated.