blungld said:
kelly09 said:
What's clear is the Left hates our country........always has.
When you start sloganeering, you have stopped thinking.
Virtue Signal, Politically Correct, "the Left hates our country," are not only nonsensical expressions that are pretty easy to breakdown as both logically and semantically false, they are lazy expressions that mean you do not actually have the words or original thought to express your point of view. They are dog whistles. Tribal attacks. And most of the time the usage is laughably self-incriminating rather than an actual poignant criticism.
Please demonstrate specifically how the Left have ALWAYS hated this country as opposed to specific groups of people on the left have taken specific positions against policies and injustice that you disagree with but they themselves believe make the country better precisely because they do "love" it. What does it actually mean to love or hate a country anyway? Hate the citizens, hate the land, hate the laws, hate the status quo, hate the things you care about?...Define your terms.
When a term like Black Lives Matter is used it is a name given to a core set of beliefs and a platform for action or policy. I despise the message of MAGA, but at least it is a clear set of principles and ideology (though ludicrously at the same owned and disowned by those proclaiming it). Those movements are not the same as saying "politically correct" or "the left hates America" which is not the name for an action or movement, it is propaganda, a right-wing bullet point that signifies a dirty mindless freight.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-left-is-consumed-with-hate-1537723198https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC288K/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1This is very obvious, not sure why you don't get it. It's probably because it's not debated and the left would not admit to it but they passionately hate the USA because it's in their DNA. How can you not hate a country that is:
systemically racist where police kill blacks
treats transgender people as second class citizens
in love with guns and violence
imperialistic and starting wars
capitalistic, an unfair system where the rich are getting richer
over-religious, shoving Christianity down our throats
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How did the American leftconceived to bring more compassion and justice to the worldbecome so given to hate? It began in the 1960s, when America finally accepted that slavery and segregation were profound moral failings. That acceptance changed America forever. It imposed a new moral imperative: America would have to show itself redeemed of these immoralities in order to stand as a legitimate democracy.
The genius of the left in the '60s was simply to perceive the new moral imperative, and then to identify itself with it. Thus the labor of redeeming the nation from its immoral past would fall on the left. This is how the left put itself in charge of America's moral legitimacy. The left, not the rightnot conservatismwould set the terms of this legitimacy and deliver America from shame to decency.
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Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing. So it has become a weapon of choice. The left has used hate to transform President Trump into a symbol of the new racism, not a flawed president but a systemic evil. And he must be opposed as one opposes racism, with a scorched-earth absolutism.
The left is consumed with hate and engage in the politics of hate, from the mainstream media, higher ed, Hollywood, and big tech, hatred of Trump and hatred of country. They're triggered by the flag, the national anthem, and symbols of our national identity. They hate their fellow Americans who have opposing political views and have been labeled as a basket of deplorables by their Presidential candidate in 2015.