aquapub
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- Apr 16, 2005
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- Conservative
Liberals often complain that conservatives play the patriotism card merely to silence any opposition to whatever they are trying to accomplish, and then they say things like this:
“Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, ‘Oh my God, you’re insulting me.’ That you can have a gay pride parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, ‘We’re here, we’re queer’-that’s what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride.” –Janeane Garofalo.
So, never mind that the founders introduced liberty to the world; never mind that they pioneered the liberation of people from tyrannical monarchies and dictatorships to establish an authority by consent of the governed …They didn’t get it just perfect from go, so they were horrible people and their ideas need to be disassociated from everything we do, right?
Two hundred years from now, I’m sure there will still be a liberal segment of the population who, like ours, ignorantly lashes out at earlier generations for not being as “advanced” as them, but the simple fact is, many of the founders wrote that they regretted having the economic need for slavery too much to have been able to abolish it from the onset. Many of their writings clarify that they knew it to be the abomination it was and hoped it could be done away with as soon as possible.
Garofalo’s uneducated smears typify the left’s rhetoric.
Liberals want people to believe their statements are reflective merely of them having a different vision for this country, that they are still patriotic, and that they still support the troops, but one needs not look any further than their own words to be convinced of their contempt. This is about the left’s simplistic, uneducated, hysterically unreasonable interpretation of the awful things America stands for; it is about hatred for this country and the left’s determination to undo everything it stands for.
Incidentally, the reason I chose the specific options in the poll is not only that liberal columnists, pundits, and politicians do these things, but also that EVERY SINGLE ONE of them has been done-most of them routinely-by liberals just on this site alone.
“Our country is founded on a sham: our forefathers were slave-owning rich white guys who wanted it their way. So when I see the American flag, I go, ‘Oh my God, you’re insulting me.’ That you can have a gay pride parade on Christopher Street in New York, with naked men and women on a float cheering, ‘We’re here, we’re queer’-that’s what makes my heart swell. Not the flag, but a gay naked man or woman burning the flag. I get choked up with pride.” –Janeane Garofalo.
So, never mind that the founders introduced liberty to the world; never mind that they pioneered the liberation of people from tyrannical monarchies and dictatorships to establish an authority by consent of the governed …They didn’t get it just perfect from go, so they were horrible people and their ideas need to be disassociated from everything we do, right?
Two hundred years from now, I’m sure there will still be a liberal segment of the population who, like ours, ignorantly lashes out at earlier generations for not being as “advanced” as them, but the simple fact is, many of the founders wrote that they regretted having the economic need for slavery too much to have been able to abolish it from the onset. Many of their writings clarify that they knew it to be the abomination it was and hoped it could be done away with as soon as possible.
Garofalo’s uneducated smears typify the left’s rhetoric.
Liberals want people to believe their statements are reflective merely of them having a different vision for this country, that they are still patriotic, and that they still support the troops, but one needs not look any further than their own words to be convinced of their contempt. This is about the left’s simplistic, uneducated, hysterically unreasonable interpretation of the awful things America stands for; it is about hatred for this country and the left’s determination to undo everything it stands for.
Incidentally, the reason I chose the specific options in the poll is not only that liberal columnists, pundits, and politicians do these things, but also that EVERY SINGLE ONE of them has been done-most of them routinely-by liberals just on this site alone.