Posted on 02/23/2015 2:15:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....Ah, American exceptionalism again.
This is in part about a fundamental difference in views. It is a definitional difference, not about the meaning of love but about the meaning of America and its place in the world. Does exceptionalism — if one accepts the premise — bestow exemption from critique? Is uniqueness perfection? Does our difference require some sort of arresting of development?.....
....In a way, this is an ideological battle. Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?....
....America is a living idea. It isn’t only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America.
Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
America’s classical framework of ordered liberty is what makes our society so dynamic. It’s like how the rules of music facilitate all kinds of improvisation and innovation. Liberals think that “progress” means hacking away at the very framework that makes progress possible. An example is property rights, which is sort of the treble clef of our society.
Most NYC residents are AINOs at best. If they loved America they would move there. NYC is a European bastard child.
The only thing that stops the rest of the world from devouring us is our military technology. The ability to reach out and touch in their playground, before they can get to ours. Obama is doing his damnedest to make sure we lose that ability.
Yes he did. Rudy did hit a nerve. They hate America and he pointed it out.
Our Leader.
See how he loves America?
Three people with their right hand over their hearts. I know two of those three, and I strongly disagree with their politics. But I don't question their patriotism.
Our Leader does not have his right hand over his heart. But like the other three, it is over the organ he intends to use on America.
Barack Oblowya?
The Left hates that we love America.
We stand in their way - we the unknowledgable “cowboys” and “cowgirls” who refuse to learn how awful American was, is and will continue to be unless we toss away liberty and gratefully bend to their brilliant plans to control us.
OK to criticize the country, not OK to criticize the President.
Cute song and dance but does he love his country or not?
We stick to our guns while the left wants to take them away; literally and figuratively.
Giuliani hit a nerve.
Their screams and hysteria are most amusing.
From the article: “Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment....”
I’m with it, man! Let’s do some adjusting towards the infinite possibility of LESS government and MORE liberty! How about THAT possibility of adjustment??? You down for that, Charles?
Let me guess, Mr. Blow. Your idea of improvement is ever increasing government. That’s old school, man. Let’s be really innovative and try moving the other way! More liberty and less government is an adjustment, too.
I can solve this American exceptionalism argument right now and the genius of America is contained in ten Amendments to the Constitution called The Bill of Rights. Name me another country that guarantees to its people Freedom of Speech and Religion and the RKBA. Name me another that limits the government to only those powers granted. The goal of American foreign policy SHOULD BE to spread the BOR to every nation on Earth.
Instead the BOR is under attack by the socialists who crave absolute power be granted to government, proving the fact that it is the essence of the American experiment. When the BOR falls, so does America, and we are already very far down that road.
Anyone who wants to change that does not love America, but loves government.
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet. Or Obama. But I repeat myself.
The name is Charles M. Blow, I assume that the middle name is Must.
Good job, Blow.
not mine,, but a worthy quote,,
Øbama loves America like OJ loved Nicole . .
This ‘change’??
Nailed it!
To explain the ‘fundamental transformation’ Chicago Communist Paul Robeson said it best
:[A] socialist society represents an advance to a higher stage of life-that is, a form of society which is economically, socially, culturally, and ethically superior to a system based upon production for private profit. History shows that the processes of social change have nothing in common with silly notions about “plots” and “conspiracies.” The development of human society-from tribalism to feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism-is brought about by the needs and aspirations of mankind for a better life.
— Quoted in ‘Here I Stand’- Chicago Communist Paul Robeson
Obama & Co are the ones ‘we have been waiting for’ to take us from capitalism to socialism. The uneducated masses remain unaware
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