re: #351 Locker

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.

I hear you and I accept your point. However, there are certain core things that America is founded upon. There comes a point where you have left the normal sphere of dolt - i.e. “you don’t like my football team, that’s anti-American” and actually opposing core principles of the nation to the extent of wanting to tear down our government. If you want to replace the Republic with some crazy form of “Christian nation” that serves whites only, then you have just become something else. If you talk of secession, then you are just something else. If you really don’t believe in things like religious freedom or that people are created equal, you are something else.

There comes a point where people have transcended normal levels of obnoxious and actually become enemies of what the nation is and stands for.