[JasonC]

All true. Now, why do the Dems see the US and the world that way? Because for decades the communists painted the west and the world that way. And the Dems lapped it up. They are simply repeating out of conviction the ideas stuffed into their heads by our cold war enemies. Which have outlived the cold war, as cynicism and hatred of America within the entire international left. We are still mopping up a century of enemy propaganda.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

We are still mopping up a century of enemy propaganda.

And John Kerry helped cement those ideas with his anti-war movement.