Do you love America?

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by XXJefferson#51, Jul 8, 2023.

  1. Bullseye

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    . TBH, the word "traitor" bothers me. It's not that most leftie hate the country, it's just that they've suffered through years of LW propaganda masquerading as "education".
     
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    Trump is a traitor to his oath of office. Impeached twice. Indicted for crimes, soon most likely to be indicted on espionage charges.
     
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    look in a mirror, me think you project too much
     
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    We aren't less proud, just more realistic. I love my country, warts and all. Just because I don't support or approve of many of our actions here and abroad doesn't mean I'm not a patriot.
     
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    Just lashing out at your fellow Americans. You know, the ones who aren't like you.
     
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    It's all the more astonishing that some people love modern world hitlers like Putin.
    Are they all radical leftists? I don't think so. :(
     
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    The radical leftists like modern Hitlers like Putin but love modern Hitlers like chairman Xi of the CCP.
     
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    Mr. Xi is not a communist, only his party is still called so.
    Today's China is more capitalist than the US. That's what makes them so dangerous.

    Btw, I am a reseller of Chinese goods. I buy cheap electronic components from China and build them into my own products.
    Without China I would have much less money. :(
     
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    With great power comes great responsibility. We've shirked the responsibility. We just let the corporations control everything, including our govt, because its easier than paying attention. So we're going to lose the power, and its going to hurt. But such is life.

    Hard men make soft lives.
    Soft lives make soft men.
    Soft men make hard lives.
    Hard lives make hard men.
     
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    Do you love America?

    Of course. However I don't love its federal government.
     
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    I disagree with all of that. Xi is a dictator. It is a political system. It has a capitalist economy. It is less capitalistic than us. Government meddles with business there to a level we wouldn't accept here. I am also a reseller of Chinese goods. The reason is that they are what people want. Businesses must provide what people want in order to be successful.
     
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    You don't really love America as a whole, you only love your very small myopic version of it that you see in your white rural town. In contrast, you hate big cities, liberals, minorities, african-americans, foreigners, immigrants, in other words, all of America that is not like your small town. I would recommend to get out of your town more, travel can broaden your horizons and open your eyes.
     
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    of course you are. your every post drips with distain of your fellow americans.
     
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    What the fork are you talking about?

    If I was covering for any one it was you, and you ain't my friend. The truth is our friend.
     
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    Then why do you continue to bash it and complain about your fellow Americans and call them names?
     
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    Yes they were. They simply didn't stay that way.
     
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    I love America and wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the entire world. But that doesn't mean I have to love America blindly. I wouldn't ignore negative qualities in my children and I won't ignore it in my country either. In fact, it is because I love my children and my country that I want them to do better.
     
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    And so is kissing the butt of any politician with whom you disagree. Patriotism does not mean that you blindly support the person who is a current office holder.

    I don’t like Trump. I have a lower opinion of Biden.
     
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    the RW has an imaginary image of the usa from the ozzie and hariet 1950s, they love that even if its unreal
     
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    Funny, I’ve heard progressives saying that the history and heritage of America are shameful and marked by oppression for over 20 years. That used to be comments from academics and progressive commentators. Now it’s in school curriculums.

    These hateful Republicans you cite seem like straw men to me.
     
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    I think you are putting words in his mouth that he didn't say. I hate cities also. I don't hate them because of liberals, minorities, foreigners etc. I hate them because they are crowded and life there has less freedom that I enjoy apart from them. I've been in every state of the union and in every major city. I choose not to live in a city or even visit one unless I have to. That doesn't affect my affection for America. It is just a lifestyle choice. We can have such choices in the U.S. I'm speaking for myself, not for the poster to whom you responded.
     
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    A little hyperbole doesn't go very far. Sorry you missed the 1950's. They were America at its best.
     
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    liberals generally like to read and are overall more educated then conservatives, and they critize americas past for things generally unkown to the right,
    the irony is many on the right coop liberal ideas with or without their knowledge as evidenced by todays right quoting MLK, and yesterdays right labeling MLK a comunist terrorist
     
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    i was born in 1955 ozzie and harriets TV fanasy was embellished then and now, im sorry you dont really like to read or know history, but its still available away from RW media, with the segregation and lynching, i can assume you are white
     
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