Easy answer:
They’re searching for a sense of self-righteousness in their humanist worldview.
Huh? This country is their country. Do you mean the country as it was 200+ years ago, or the government as outlined in the Constitution? That’s long gone.
They'll run out of antibiotics before it's had its run through the population.
Most other places on Earth have less resistance than that.
When we're down to 9 million people, maybe we ought to pick a place with a view and low cost maintenance to restart civilization. That's what they did after the Plague of Justinian you know.
Two or three years ago I was at a friends New Years party and struck up a conversation with another neighbor. She was a lawyer for a huge firm here, college paid for by her parents, a comfortable life, money, her husband was a house husband and she, got a little drunk and then unloaded on me how she hated this country, its people, history and how today’s Americans must be forced to suffer for it.
I have need seen or heard a more visceral hatred against anything and that is why I understand the president and liberals and leftist rage and hatred and will not be satisfied until they destroy the country.
Viet Nam
Watergate
The CIA
The fact is in the 60s and 70s (and really in the 50s but we didn’t find out about that stuff until much later) America went on a tact that was at the very least sneaky and dishonest, and you could make an argument that it was down right evil. And it’s never really recovered, we’re always doing something sleazy to somebody, we keep getting in unpopular ill defined wars, aligning ourselves with seriously bad people, and electing tax and spend liberals. Anybody that doesn’t think that a large portion of our government has a strong evil bent is really not paying attention. Americans are still by and large good people, our government is scum.
Or did I misunderstand the question?
Well if they mean the zer0bama Regime? Well yeah it’s evil incarnate
Because they know each other so well..............
college professors and teachers......
It basically boils down to a hatred for the Christian God.
The undermining of America by the Marxists began in the 1920s and they were firmly entrenched in media and academia by the 1930s, where they have remained and grown tremendously in strength and influence. After WWII the U.N. was to be the organizational force of this New World Order and it was so structured by FDR's hand-picked man, proven Communist Agent Alger Hiss. Hiss and the U.N.
Several generations of American kids have been carefully taught to loathe their own country. I saw on Fox News just this morning that a new on-line history course approved for 825 school districts in Texas (of all places!) depicts the original Boston Tea party as a terrorist act!
Once we began aborting our own babies in 1973 at the rate of 1.5 million per year, we lost the ability to stand on the high ground.
We no longer had the moral authority to fight back.
That’s what happened.
In 1965, we changed the immigration rules and started letting in millions of third worlders who were only here for money and/or to escape the hellholes they came from. They had no desire to be Americans in the way that European immigrants of the past did. We encouraged them not to assimilate. We catered to them and their demands never to be “offended.” This is a big reason, perhaps the main reason, for the changes the author speaks of. But it is the elephant in the living room that no one wants to discuss.
But this is a little off:
While Europeans are aware of their colonialist past, their guilt trip is far more limited. Why is that? On the surface, they have America and Israel to claim as real villains—scapegoats whose condemnation banishes European guilt-- but there is more to it than that.
One thing is that the United States can be said to be, in Marxist terms, a settler colonial society. But Latin American societies are based on far more deliberate and systematic genocide of the original inhabitants. Specific tales can be told of specific, usually small-scale massacres in America or the exile of the Cherokee. But in Spain’s colonies in the new world, there were deliberate massive killings, including—unlike the United States—of those who never attacked the Europeans or even fought wars against them.
The strange thing is that it doesn't "banish European guilt." Blaming somebody else may have the psychological effect of making it easier to go on living by scapegoating somebody else, but the people in Europe who are most against the US or Israel still feel pretty guilty about their imperialist past, at least in Northern Europe.
And I'm not sure about the rest which seems to be manipulative, distorting history to lead readers to the opinion the writer decided on in advance. Latin Americans (many of whom are of Indian descent) would look at this differently, as might North American Indians.
PS: Nothing about Lew Rockwell? Every day they tell why they think the United States (the government at least) is awful and evil.
12 YEARS OF GODLESS, HUMANIST GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING!!!!
It’s a long existing problem the sane adults in this country had better solve while there MAY still be time.
To leave things as they are is to invite another, more tyrannical Obama into our lives.
It will NOT be pretty!!
Answer: They are almost all educated by a system that has been taken over by Marxists and other social;ist variants. They no longer learn about the founders except that they were eeevil white, slave owning rich guys.
They don't believe any such thing - because they don't believe anything at all.
Conservatives have an absolutely deadly blindness problem to what they are up against. Conservatives think for themselves, and they project this upon an enemy who doesn't. The very essence of collectivism is not thinking for oneself, not believing in anything at all, except what you are told to believe - and dropping that for something else on a dime when you are told to.
Collectivists hate America because that is wha they are told to do. Each one of them would march alongside Marines fighting communism and show the utmose courage in standing up for freedom, too - IF that's what the collective told them to do.
Collectivists have abandoned their souls. They have refused the very meaning of life itself. They use all of their intelligence and loyalty and heart and love to obey, obey, obey the collective - that is their only focus, their only God.
Collectivists are morally and spiritually depraved to a level that most people cannot even grasp - and they use that blindness to great advantage. That Democrat mom walking down the street with her child is NOT a loving mother - she is obeying collectivist orders to wear those clothes, walk in that place at that time, and treat her breeding offfering to the collective in a certain way - and she is doing it.
You think I exaggerate? Then explain - really explain - Obama's and Hillary's popularity.
Without this explanation, you can't.
It's an Anglo-Saxon "thing". The Brits preceded the US into self-hatred.
It's success that's being sneered at. Ayn Rand termed it "the hatred of the good for being good".