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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald and the Right Wing Media Have the Same Obama Smear--(Using Media Matters.) [View all]Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Promoting the idea that both parties are opposites?
Cynicsim is Anti-American? Or, just the "encouraging of it"? "History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of government couldn't be wise." Mark Twain Obviously written by an anti-American cynic.
Eschews compromise and bipartisanship? You mean like the "compromise and bipartisanship" that supported (see IWR vote) Bush's wars?
"embraces disaffected white men who no sense of duty and loyalty"? How about the disaffected black men who had no "sense of duty and loyalty" by breaking the law, ignored bi-partisanship and loyalty, and were probably cynical (gasp!), who ran off from the plantations?
Count me with this guy:
"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions." Arthur Schopenhauer