This take our country back crap

[malaise]

From whom exactly? Americans voted for the Democratic Party.

Democrats need to hammer this home - ReTHUGS do not own America. America is not theirs to take back. The people should decide who rules at any given time. Fuck all ReTHUGS and TEEbaggers. Fuck you Sarah Palin - you stupid ignorant fuck!!

[pinboy3niner]

1. As far as I'm concerned, we took our country back in November 2008

That slogan today is just racist, nativist crap!

:hi:

[malaise]

4. Call them on it - over and over

:hi:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Well said.

:kick:

[Taverner]

3. It means 'Take it back from that scary black man!'

When these folks see the President, they don't see what we see

[malaise]

6. Expose the racists

:hi:

[Taverner]

7. OH Yeah!

:hi:

[The Magistrate]

Exactly, Sir: What It Is In Plain English Is 'This Used To Be A White Man's Country, And Now....'

[Taverner]

28. Exactamundo!

Because really, and that's what drives their emotions.

Hell, they might have been realy liberal before, but Obama's Presidency turned them to the dark side.

It's mainly a hatefest on the fact that our President does not have Blonde Hair and Blue eyes.

Teabaggers - OK: If the president, instead of being Barack Hussein Obama was Barrington Hugh Olbus.

An Anglo Saxon male.

You would view this completely differently.

[malaise]

32. Correct Sir

:hi:

[Ozymanithrax]

5. It is a sales pitch, just like the pitch you hear from a Used Car Salesman...

Though the Republican Party is more like Used Condom salesmen.

Everything is implied and they trust that noone will engage their higher faculties to ask "Save us from what?"

It is an emotional pitch.

[malaise]

11. They're sick

Call them on it - fugging racists.

[Ozymanithrax]

19. Sick, maybe. But appeals to the emotion are really common...

And since this actually apeals to quite a few people, should that sick apply to people who accept it without thinking, or should we just call them lazy.

An appeal to the emotions is supposed to shunt past logic, and it works. Sick, it might be. But such appeals can be very affective.

[malaise]

21. Yes they are lazy but how can middle and working class

Americans afford to be lazy in these times given their own economic and social reality. To buy these crap is to vote against their own interests.

reword

[Ozymanithrax]

30. Because people over simply and accept what they hear...

They are concerned about their jobs. That causes anxiety. They accept the meaning of the phrase as something that applies to their anxiety.

The words are meaningless on purpose to allow people filled with anxiety to give them meaning. Politics in a lot of people works like religion. They do not question things, even if it is against their own interest.

[malaise]

34. True but I don't think Dems have done enough

to mash down this crap.

[stray cat]

8. Americans elected bush twice -but I think many wanted their country back

[old mark]

17. I sure did - I did have tears in my eyes when Obama won, as much as for a

Democratic victory as that a black man was elected President of the US. I want more of it back, though...I don't like to share with those idiots.

mark

[Frustratedlady]

9. I truly believe some of them are living in post Civil War days.

They won't be happy until the South wins again.

[malaise]

13. 100% correct

:hi:

[golddigger]

10. Take it back to the pre-civil war days. Every little

sound bite is a racist code. Your looking at the new KKK.

[malaise]

12. Ding ding we have a winner

That is exactly what they mean

[RKP5637]

27. Yeah, I think so too... so far, they haven't put the robes on ... yet. n/t

[walldude]

14. Pretty funny ain't it?

They want to "take back their country" and if they can't do it legally by a Democratic election they will do it by force. You gotta love the insane levels of irony...

[malaise]

18. Isn't that the truth

Not one of them has a democratic bone in his/her body. They are fascists.

[baldguy]

15. The country they're talking about is the CSA.

[GSLevel9]

29. rofl...

hehehe... good one!

[malaise]

35. Very good

:D

[frogmarch]

16. Well said!

:kick:

[GSLevel9]

20. probably posted on Repug 100x forums in 2005

probably posted on Repug 100x forums in 2005:

From whom exactly? Americans voted for the Republican Party.

Republicans need to hammer this home - DEMS do not own America. America is not theirs to take back. The people should decide who rules at any given time. Fuck all DEMS and LIBS. Fuck you John Kerry- you stupid ignorant fuck!!


So what exactly are you trying to say? If/When the idiots take power again I will scream "take the country back" and so will you... it's all just politics, all the game...

[malaise]

26. Yeh just like her 'real American' crap

and the rantings from the wingnuts. Sure - it's the same as the Dems. :sarcasm:

[PDJane]

22. Agnes says that maybe America should start

giving back. To the third world, to the balkans, to the oil producers, to the banana republics.....instead of taking all the time. The world would be better off for it.

(Agnes is my 84-year-old mother. She's blunt.)

[malaise]

23. Give her a hug

:hi:

[Golden Raisin]

24. Much of it is code for

the big, scary black man in the White House. They'd probably use another word than black man. They want to go back to the fantasy world of 1950s Americana depicted on TV in 'Father Knows Best'. They have difficulty accepting that world never really existed.

[Faygo Kid]

25. Keep it up, Fox/Tea Partiers. You may yet motivate the Dem base.

Take my country away from me? You have fought every day to do that.

I'm starting to get pissed, after being apathetic with the bullshit "bipartisanship" effort from the Dems.

That's not a good sign for your side.

[RKP5637]

31. Recommend!!! n/t

[Emit]

33. Well put, malaise!

:thumbsup:

[Martin Eden]

36. We don't want to take our country BACK -- we want to take it FORWARD

I heard that right here on DU, though I don't recall who came up with it.

[devilgrrl]

37. I've yet to hear a coherent grievance from them. I think we should take it back from corporations...

but that's just me.