An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America

[FourScore]

An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America
by MinistryOfTruth

I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you talked about creating jobs more than you talk about why you hate gay people we wouldn't call you bigots. Maybe if you talked about black people without automatically assuming they are on food stamps while demanding their birth certificates we wouldn't call you racist. You hate socialism and social justice. You hate regulations and taxes and spending and the Government. You hate.

Image Hosting by PictureTrail.com You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I don't know how in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused you haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like people who look like you or at least hate most of the things that you hate. You hate everything else.

Now, I know you profess to love our country and the founding fathers (unless you are reminded that they believed in the separation of church and state), but I need to remind you that America is NOT what Fox News says it is. America is a melting pot, it always has been. We are a multi-cultural amalgamation of all kinds of people, and yet you still demonize everyone who is not a rich, white, heterosexual christian male or his submissive and obedient wife.

You hate liberals, moderates, hell, anyone who disagrees with Conservative dogma as espoused by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. You hate em.

Well, here are the facts, Jack. If you hate the Government then you are unqualified to manage it. If you hate gay people more than you love America than you should take your own advice and get the hell out. There are several countries that are openly hostile to gay people, but they are full of brown people and you don't like them much either from what I understand. It looks like you are screwed, but that's not what I am here to tell you...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/09/1053088/-An-open-letter-to-the-people-who-hate-Obama-more-than-they-love-America?via=siderec

[FourScore]

1. kick

[patrice]

2. Many of us know people like this. Some of us need to accept that there's NOT much you can do.

The same biological markers for emotion receive different labels depending upon experience. Feedback loops form through the rewards of social relationships. The strength of the experience becomes self-reinforcing. Any direct assault on it is taken as justification of its own validity. These are people who will gladly "cut their own nose off to spite your face".

. . . sad voice of experience here.

[LadyInAZ]

3. kick

[FarLeftFist]

4. Conservatism is built on FEAR and HATE. Everything they believe boils down to these 2 things.

[DevonRex]

5. I agree.

Some folks say it is just fear. But I've seen the hate up close. Fear excuses that hate, IMO. And there is no excuse for it.

[FarLeftFist]

6. You said it exactly right, fear excuses the hate, but fear also breeds the hate.

[loyalsister]

7. I hope to see the campaign refer to these words...

"The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an "awesome God" in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."


It serves as great contrast to the negativity and outright hate that has been coming from republicans for 4 years.