re: #526 iceweasel

I think you’re the one who needs to step out of the echo chamber if you’re repeating the lie that American writers and intellectuals on the left hate America or are ashamed of their heritage.

This is a nice manifestation of the same problem the thread is about: the inability of the current Republican party to handle criticism, and the need to see all criticism as ‘treasonous’.

As for telling me to see what the other side is up too…Dude, I’m the progressive posting on LGF. How many progressive blogs are you reading?

(hint, reading DU, kos diaries, and nasty comments at HuffPo doesn’t count. That’d be like me pretending that HotAir, WND, and Free Republic represent conservatives or Republicans.)

That fact that you are here posting is a good sign, but do not think you can post here with someone calling you on it. Hofstader, Howard Zinn, Chomsky, et al are all cut from the save cloth and I disagree with their outlook. I am guessing you do not. We can agree to disagree. But, I cannot see anything in the writing and intellectual tretises of these guys showing a “pride” in their country, sorry if that hurts.

I go over to the “other side” on occasion, but blogs, in general are poor places to actually learn something. I read a lot - both sides of issues, both sides of a history. I run my worldview through certain filters and you run yours through others.

The left did nothing but whine and moan while Bush was in. I heard nothing but complaints and BS from the leadership. If it was not for Obama’s charisma, it is was not clear “your side” would have even won this last Presidential election, in spite of the fact that GWB had some of the lowest approval ratings on record. But, I take great solace in the fact that all of the progressive crap currently being shoved down out throats will end in ultimate failure and another banishment to the wilderness for such ideas.