Reply #: "I want my country back!" [View All]

[optimal-tomato]

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I've heard it before, but I never know quite how to interpret it.

1) I felt something similar after the 2006 and 2008 elections. Like I was finally getting my country back. A rational, reasonable government. Maybe this woman just preferred the wacko pseudo-theocracy of warmongers. That's the country she wants back...

2) But when combined with the "Birther" movement, I can't help but think that she's rejecting the version of America that elected a black (multiracial) man with muslim familial connections. In her view of America, the lilly-white Christians are always in charge.

Beyond this, it just gets darker. What's the America she wants back? How has the last six months been different, really different than the last 8 years? It's been marginally more liberal, but not radical (in my view not radical enough). What has really changed so much that she feels that she's losing/lost her country?