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.

[wli]

1. I don't hate anyone period

My justice is neutral. It is solely a moral motivation that forces my hand in the condemnation of the Republican Party and the DLC (the Republican "fifth column" within the Democratic Party). Even so, the Democratic Party is largely complicit in all these schemes. The Black Caucus are close to the sole exception among Democratic Congressional Representatives, though some are clearly Republican infiltrators despite all that.

[Skittles]

6. OMG THE BLACK CAUCUS

I HOPE THEY GET THE PLACE IN HISTORY THEY DESERVE *SNIFF*

[wake.up.america]

2. The bottom line: Bush has done more damage to America than...

anyone else in every aspect. So who hates America???!!!

[DemInDistress]

3. I love my Country the United States of America...

"ITS THE MANAGEMENT THAT SUCKS"........

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

4. No...

Just hate what's happened to it in the last 5 years. This country deserves better.

[cleveramerican]

5. its a handy shield to hide behind.

its gives them an easy out, that way they don't have to consider the other sides view. They want to "stay the course" right off the cliff, then blame the left for our lack of enthusiasm for their policies.

[mitchum]

7. But the right wing hates Americans

[Jade Fox]

8. It's part of the whole "you're either with us or against us".......

simplification of reality that the Neocons and their brownshirt supporters
are fond of.

If you dare criticise anything the US is doing, than you must "hate"
America.