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In reply to the discussion: Happy Birthday, You CRAZY Fucking Yanks! [View all]Aristus
(66,294 posts)34. Welcome to DU, Personal Damon!
Unfortunately, I couldn't agree with you more. I love my country, but it's not a blind love. We have a lot of problems. The most dangerous of which is a demented hoard of psychotics who insist that they love America, too. And that the best expression of that love is a desire to see the entire country fall apart into mutually hostile fractured states with no governing authority, and an anarchic public demeanor consisting of violent gun-play over petty grievances, and a Guns-N-Roses "Welcome To The Jungle" outlook.
I take great comfort in Bill Clinton's adage that there is nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with America. But he said that over twenty years ago, before 9/11 and the advent of the national-security police state, and before the rise of the Tea Party, which is effectively described in the paragraph above.
There are still millions of people in this country who still view us as a national community, and that any thing great we may achieve will only be attained if we work together. But we are being opposed by a small group of very wealthy people who owe no allegiance to anything but their own rapidly increasing riches. And they are cheered on by a larger group of people who own no wealth, but possess broken spirits embittered by ignorance, provincialism, pettiness, hatred, suspicion, bigotry, racism, and a taste for meaningless violence.
We've weathered storms in the past, and survived. I hope we will weather this current, awful tempest.
There are still people who love this country, and I'm one of them.
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Being of Canadian descent (Father's side) :D thanks, Personal Damon. Hugs to ya back!
roguevalley
Jul 2014
#53
Canada has its trouble spots too. And most of what you show are MINORITY views.
RBInMaine
Jul 2014
#6
Canada respects multi-culturalism, gay marriage, has universal health care, a solid universal pensio
Fred Sanders
Jul 2014
#8
Yes, but haRpeR and his own Religious Right XtRemist$ also want to destroy all that...
Amonester
Jul 2014
#13
Thanks, ally!We're working at living up to our ideals and stopping globalist robbery of our rights.
ancianita
Jul 2014
#10
Are you referring to me, my political allies, all Americans, or just Repukes?
AllTooEasy
Jul 2014
#61
Canuck showoff! You know what a teabagger would say back to you? "USA! USA! USA!"
valerief
Jul 2014
#23
"Don't tell me you can't put the Republicans and Tea Party racists in their place!"
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2014
#54