How the picture of levitating futbol players is relevant, I can’t figure out.
“Liberals tend to equate patriotism with the government. Obama was supposed to usher in a glorious new era of European-style big government. He’s failed, though alas not entirely. But in the attempt he aroused a populist movement — the tea parties — full of people who wore their traditional patriotism on their sleeves and tricorn hats. The forces of American exceptionalism proved formidable, taking advantage of our exceptional constitutional structure to thwart European social democracy. And liberal resentment over that fact is palpable.”
That’s right; after bashing the WASP foundations of this country for 50 years, libs expected Americans to surge with pride when their foreign Muslim token was elected (as the embodiment of the cultural decay they represent). They are furious that he instead has provoked a reaction.
Liberals blame others/things for their own problems.
This is what 13 years of public school indoctrination, followed by more years of college and university, will give the nation.
Nearly every teacher in this nation from pre-K through graduate school was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities. No one should be surprised at the results of this poll.
Why liberals have become so comfortable running down America is no doubt complicated, but I think one part of the answer is obvious.
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It is obvious. Marxofascist control every cultural institution in the nation. The infiltration began before the turn of the last century. Bill Ayers didn’t get to his lofty position without a lot of mentoring from Marxofascists of his father and grandfather’s generation.
These people are not my countrymen. I shouldn’t have to put up with their pols, their laws, their regulations, their religion.
Hate to admit this, but he fact that so many of my fellow Americans seem to be liberal Kool-Aid drinkers makes me much less proud to be an American than I used to be. One can’t help be ashamed of a country that elected Obama twice. It’s like we are have become the surrender monkeys.
IMO - this is a result of the social revolution of the 60’s and 70’s - the Weather Underground and other anti-American groups of the day. This was one of their goals and they have succeeded beyond their dreams.
Hayes cheered, “is accepting the fact the U.S. cannot simply assert its dominance. Turns out we have to play just like everybody else.”
The nub of it as far as I’m concerned: These types hate the moral authority of the American Idea because they themselves are their own moral authority. America is in their way.
The point is exactly what is being said in many of the comments. Here in our United States there is a big difference between the government and the governed. The government sucks (and it has sucked for ages, under both Republicans and Democrats). But our people are basically good folks. Most importantly, our founding principles — that of a constitutional republic springing out of the ideas of Adam Smith and John Locke and Edmund Burke and many others have yet to find an equal in the political-philosophical word. To the Left, these MEN are just a bunch of dead white guys. Who do you want us to emulate Che Guevara? Trotsky? Idi Amin? Pancho Villa? So even though our government has been in the ideological outhouse for a good hundred years or so, the philosophy upon which the USA
was founded still inspires many of us to continue on despite all adversity.
B******t.
One of the core beliefs of liberalism, in total rejection of historical fact, is that they are the party of tolerance and diversity, and the GOP is the party of the Klan which only wants to send blacks back to the plantations, and to lynch any troublemakers.
And people like Lewis believe that Obama was elected on the basis of his alleged abilities and minimal experience, when in reality, he was elected strictly because of his race.
There's no point in being fair to a liberal liar and hypocrite like Lewis, unless you are afraid of having his ilk condemn you of the racism that they themselves embrace.
To anyone who is required to talk and listen to liberals the 60% number is probably low. This was a poll in which people self-identified their pride in America. Even liberals feel obligated to lie and say they love their country and are proud of it when in fact they hate it.
Liberals don't hate all of America. Just that which is good and decent. Liberals love the corrupt, dysfunctional federal government and the corrupt IRS. They love the fact the VA is wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and refusing to provide treatment to veterans.
Liberals romanticize the criminals, the con men and the other bad people who prey on honest and good Americans.
In short, liberals are simply bad people who hate good people.
I love my country like a grieving parent loves his crackhead child that is killing himself
Real simple. Liberals need to have an excuse to implement their stupidity as policy.
If everything is great, then there is no excuse for them to "fix" it, whatever they have the compulsion to mess with at the time.
So, they go to great efforts to tear things down in the public psyche in order to justify the remedies they wanted in the first place, whether those are necessary, desirable, or not.
If they manage to convince people that living in a country where even the poor people have the option of being fat is horrible, "unjust", or even "evil", then they have free rein to screw with things (at least in their own minds).
When a person has no ideal were they come from, they have no ideal were there going.
Maybe “Progressives” would be happier in Viet Nam, the country they wished to protect from American soldiers;
or maybe even Cuba.
IMHO
I must admit, mine has been seriously diminished since the first Tuesday in November 2008.