re: #333 LudwigVanQuixote

This is what we get from blind, and unreasoning hatred.

You have to hate Obama a lot if you would rather that nothing goes right for America, so that you can be bitter about him.

One could argue that people who loved America would want America to succeed in all things.

Isn’t it obvious that the far right actually doesn’t love America?

They hate American values like separation of church and state, the notion that all people are created equal (you can’t really believe that and hate black people or entire faiths), fair play, the rule of law (you can’t really believe in that and threaten your government by waggling guns around), telling the truth and scientific endeavor.

Some talk about secession.

Some talk openly of treason.

People like Fox news, Malkin and Rush and the various far right bots that eat their drivel up, are nothing more than Anti American fools.

If you hate basic American values and the American government, you are anti American.

If you want America to fail, you are Anti-American.

I sympathize with your feelings. As an exercise in empathy I would only comment that I think the far right is pro-America but they are like most folks in that they are only “pro” if we are talking about their personal definition of “American”.

We were just talking about this the other day, the standard argument being:

“If you don’t agree with everything I think and say then you are anti-American (anti-freedom, anti-democracy, etc, etc).”

Lame argument no matter the source.