Posted on 02/02/2018 5:32:28 AM PST by Kaslin
Did you ever think you'd see the day when a prominent political party would accuse the president of being divisive and exclusionary for saying "America" too many times during his State of the Union speech?
The American Civil Liberties Union made that very complaint. No, the ACLU is not the Democratic Party, but their positions on such matters are virtually indistinguishable. Besides, many prominent Democrats and media liberals made similar objections after the speech.
MSNBC host Joy Reid brazenly trashed traditional American values and institutions with her tweet accusing President Trump of trying to force the normalization of himself by using "terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for" -- namely, church, family, police, military and the national anthem.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called Trump's unapologetically pro-America speech, which was widely approved by the American people in flash polls immediately afterward, "dangerous."
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., who recently compared Trump's presidency to a time "right after the 1932 elections when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor," took umbrage at Trump's statement that Americans, like the immigrants whose parents brought them here illegally as children, "are dreamers, too."
Fox News analyst Juan Williams was deeply disappointed by the speech, saying that this was an opportunity for Trump to reach across the aisle and bring us together but he didn't take it. More bizarrely, Williams said in response to Trump's statement that "Americans are dreamers, too," "David Duke and the KKK would love that." Seriously?
Obviously, today's Democratic Party (at least its leadership) has a problem with raw expressions of patriotism, because Democrats can't seem to look at America through anything but their distorted prism of Balkanized identity politics.
They assume that when Republicans promote church, family, police, the military, the national anthem and wholesomeness and goodness, they are somehow dog whistling to white supremacists, or some such nonsense. Democrats said Trump delivered a "wedge speech," one that "inflames the cultural divide."
Perhaps their habit of divining code language in our every pronouncement is simple projection. For all of Trump's faults, he pretty much says what he believes. His SOTU speech was no exception. Probably the most consistent message he delivered on the campaign trail was his belief in an America-first philosophy -- not certain groups in America at the exclusion of others but all Americans.
What these kvetching liberals can't grasp is that we conservatives don't view our heartfelt expressions of patriotism as exclusionary or divisive. Indeed, by definition they are not.
Liberals say we promote white privilege. We don't. They say our policies disfavor minorities, but they don't; they are race-neutral and aimed at lifting up all people. They say immigration enforcement advocates are driven by nativism and bigotry. We aren't; we are animated by a love for America and the American idea, which is enshrined in our founding documents. We don't believe that America is the greatest nation in history by accident, and certainly not because of ethnic demographics.
Rep. Joseph Kennedy, in the official Democratic response to the SOTU, audaciously quoted a U.S. motto, "e pluribus unum," meaning "out of many, one" -- though every other thing out of his mouth and that of his Democratic colleagues undermines that precept. Conservatives, though, actually believe in a melting pot and equality of opportunity and equal justice for all.
Sadly, Kennedy and his Democratic leaders view America only through race-conscious eyes. They are the ones who deliberately divide us, by constantly agitating over race, gender, sex, religion and any other category that will incite their base into a frenzy.
America was mired in a perpetual malaise under Barack Obama, and the Democrats' goal, when Obama's scapegoating of George W. Bush had finally extended even beyond the Democrats' willing suspension of disbelief, was to delude Americans into accepting economic stagnation as inevitable and the new normal.
Already, in one short year, with Trump's tax cuts, his deregulation, his business-friendly policies, his recommitment to America's domestic energy industries, and his overall contagious optimism and bullishness on America, this nation is roaring back, and Democrats are conspicuously vexed about it.
They have no viable alternative agenda; everything they tried under Obama failed. Yet they're still promoting the same destructive ideas. That is why they have reduced themselves to ad hominem Trump slanders, bogus charges of collusion with Russia and blanket smears of conservatives as bigoted extremists.
Democrats are the ones who have become more extreme every year. Yesteryear's liberal extremism is far too conservative for today's Democratic Party. With Democrats' constant westward shifting of the goal posts, they regard mainstream conservatism as radical. Proof of their extremism and intellectual bankruptcy is their maniacal rhetoric, such as accusing Trump of being a dangerous dictator.
Their emotional breakdown over innocuous and uplifting presidential expressions of patriotism and traditional American values -- with their perception that such inherently unifying ideas are divisive and exclusionary -- screams volumes.
Such utterances of national pride cannot credibly be depicted as divisive. Likewise, Democrats' quest to force-fit identity-tinted lenses on all Americans so that we can see one another only as members of certain groups cannot be spun as uniting or constructive.
It would be refreshing if Democrats could at least be truthful about where they stand, but as of now, they are saying one thing and at the same time, well, saying another. Please keep it up through November, guys.
Globalists do not like Nationalism. Having patriotic feelings toward a nation state gets in the way of the New World Order.
To avoid answering that and similar questions the Dems simply redefine words.
Ex.:
To Democrats “paying taxes” is Patriotic.
The demonrats showed their hatred for the nation, it’s just that simple.
Exactly!
Now, how do we woke our younger ones to the realities of what a NWO has done and would do to them?
Easy answer. The Rats believe that “America” is the source of everything that is wrong with the world. So it follows that everything that harms America is good. Women almost exclusively have fairly passive roles in society, and whites have almost always run things so “white male” is the epitome of all that is evil.
Because Progressivism (full name: Transnational Progressivism) does not believe in nations. Patriotism is a person who loves his nation above all others, so that is counter-revolutionary. To a Prog, the world is just a collection of regional labor center where the masses toil endlessly to barely exist and to insure that an elite minority of people control all resources.
Those sitting and scowling Democrats aren’t well-meaning people with a different view of politics. They are evil people, who serve an ideology that wants to make you a slave. They are far more evil than any Nazi, Japanese soldier, Communist, or even Muslim that any American has ever looked across their rifle sights at over the last century. They are more evil because they ignore history to pursue their ideology and they have the luxury to choose freedom, but they don’t. Don’t ever forget that.
My two kids are in college. Neither are Moonbats, although both are a little more Left than I would like. Neither are especially political.
But both are aware that the country is a mess. The older one (grad school) especially knows that since 9/11 our decline has accelerated. I would say that she has a vague sense that Republicans and George W Bush screwed things up. And I think she also has a sense that Barack Obama didn’t fix things.
I believe that they will be affected by Trump as I was affected by Reagan. Here is a man who makes a difference. His ideas change the world. He fixes things. He makes things improve.
Globalists and the New World Order crowd had power for 30 years and it wasn’t pretty. Now let’s see how America First works.
I think a lot of young people will wake.
These Marxists HATE America.
They claim to love the FBI but hate law and order and the US military, borders, language, culture, history, and industry.
But why do they hate a nation that has given them so much?
After 8 long years of president Ubama have NO kind words for American history EVER “before I became your leader”, people are glad to hear someone stand up FOR America.
bkmk
Very simple - they are fascist leaning socialists who want one world government (with them in control obviously). Nationalism, patriotism, and most of all a strong America stand directly in their path.
They can't have that, so they will oppose President Trump and his America first stance at every opportunity. Fortunately for us, they are playing right into one of President Trump's strengths. He's a master negotiator and deal maker. He is obviously very good at figuring out what other parties want, and manipulating them into a "deal" that advances what he wants. Starting on the campaign trail he played the liberal media like the cheap fiddle they are. Now he's (apparently quite easily) pushing the democrats and libtards in general around, forcing them into ever more ridiculous positions. They are cutting their own political throats and don't even see it. They still apparently believe "the people are with us!" {snort} President Trump makes it look almost too easy. I can't wait to see what foolish, obviously anti-American position he manipulates them into taking next.
>>. They are more evil because they ignore history to pursue their ideology and they have the luxury to choose freedom, but they don’t. Don’t ever forget that.
They are more evil because they are ancient Marxists with one foot already in the grave hellbent on enslaving Americans into a system that the decrepit Democrat leadership will never have to live under themselves (because of wealth, political power held until the day they day die, and escaping the costs of their sh!tshow system by retiring into a grave).
Spot on target, excellent thread!
What does one do when the "cultural divide" is self-inflicted?
It seems to me that when we begin as a single "culture," and then one by one, individual self-defined minority groups choose to step away from the culture, it is disingenuous for the resulting aggregate minority "culture" to blame those who remained for the "divide."
Furthermore, if one were to dissect the "minority culture," I doubt one would find a homogeneous alternative culture; instead there would be a balkanized set of separate identities with separate interests, bonded together only by the label "minority" as set against the left-behind majority.
-PJ
....Did you ever think you’d see the day when a prominent political party would accuse the president of being divisive and exclusionary for saying “America” too many times during his State of the Union speech? ...
Yes. The Communist Party and Democrats
Wednesday night on her TV show Laura Ingraham was discussing the SOTU speech with the Fox affirmative hire Juan Williams. Williams criticized Trump for saying that Americans have dreams too on the grounds that David Duke liked hearing that line. I kid you not.
I lost respect for Ingraham because she only very mildly criticized Williams for saying that. She should have bitched-slapped him out of his chair, either figuratively or literally.
Lately, the very term “American” is being slandered for its inherent evilness, followed closely by “white”. What with #BLM being in the ascendancy, anything that detracts from that is racism. And as W sagely pointed out, racism is the worst possible thing, much worse than the 100 million people murdered by communists last century.
“Why Do You Find Patriotism Divisive?”
Simple. Because it’s not profitable.
rwood
Neither here nor there, but the Democrats in Power are doing a grave disservice to themselves by keeping SanFranNan around. Her tardive dyskinesia, which is only getting steadily worse, makes for abysmal optics.
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