Why does the Left in America hate America?

Now, viagra canada cialis I know that not every Liberal hates America.

My point is, best cialis no rx I can’t even think of a time I heard someone from the Right say they hated America.

And, discount yet, you hear it fairly often from the Left.

They say they hate America for its racism. They hate America for what it has done, for what they imagine it has done, and for what it has failed to do. They spell America with a K. They burn flags. They sit silent (or maybe cheering) as a preacher shouts “God damn, America.” They hate America for electing George Bush.

But when Bill Clinton was president, folks on the Right never said, “I hate America,” or “I hate Bill Clinton’s America,” they said, “I hate Bill Clinton.”

From the Right I hear, “I hate Affirmative Action.” Or, “I hate taxes.” Or, “I hate Liberals.”

But I never hear, “I hate America.”

So, I’m asking a serious question here:

Why do so many folks on the Left actually say they hate America?

Is it because, at heart, they know that so many of the things they hate about America (the freedom to keep and bear arms, the freedom to offend others with what you say, the freedom to make a profit) represent the “real” America?

The America that was carved out of the wilderness by individualists and iconoclasts?

The America that was taken away from the Indians and Mexicans at gunpoint?

The America that is more interested in independence than in interdependence?

Maybe I’m wrong (it certainly wouldn’t be the first time), but it seems to me that people on the Right never say they hate America, because they know that the things they do hate about America can be changed and don’t represent the true nature of our great nation.

But the people on the Left who say they hate America believe that the very things they hate most about America – our looking out for our own self-interest, our competitiveness, our love of business, our warlike nature, our individualism, our disregard for high culture, our tolerance of inequality in the interest of rewarding excellence, and our uncivilized insistence on personal responsibility – are the very things that make America…America.

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