Isn't it awfully nice when you can just decide some random jackass represents the entirety of your political opposition? I know I certainly appreciate the fact that I can do that and totally avoid having to make any sort of actual argument. After all, if one conservative, anywhere, says something dumb, that means you're all a bunch of idiots? Right?
Also, I'm not sure who decided "liberal left" was a good slur...but it lacks a certain rhetorical flourish, like the kind you can often find in a junior high debate.
So...according to you, I'm neither allowed to single out one person (which I did in my post) and call him a moron nor classify him with the rest of the ideology to which he subscribes (which I also did in my post) in order to point out what is at the core of that ideology?
The quoted person (the one I was singling out) is completely full of self loathing...the same self loathing that permeates the liberals in this country all the way up to the President. That's the only point I was making, and it is fully supported by this one person (with an allusion to the President to tie it in to the greater group of people). I'm not sure where your problem is with my post, aside from the fact that you don't like that I pointed out the idiocy of the basis of his position.
Whether it's patriotism or wealth, self-loathing is at the very center of the liberal ideology. You cannot get around that. It's plain as day and it's evident in everything the Democratic and Republican parties have done in the last 10 years.
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Oh no, we can't rebuild the WTC towers...it would be too grotesque for words to make that ridiculous display of wealth and pride! We must bow and aquiesce to those whose kin destroyed them because it was our fault by being wealthy and free in the first place. Instead, we'll go pussy-foot around and try to nation-build.
It's the same thing as in this OP. The students showed pride in being Americans, and they're being slammed by someone who thinks it's grotesque to be proud of ones country.
That's no different than Obama saying that there's a point at which you've made enough money, so the rest should be given to the government.
Those types of ideas can only spring from self-loathing. If you like what you are and what you've done, there is no reason not to celebrate it.
The correct, patriotic response to 9/11 would have been to seige the entirety of the Middle East (nothing goes in or comes out) until the puppet despots and tyrants stopped fucking around and either killed or surrendered every terrorist living there and to seize the oil fields. Instead, we gave up our own domestic freedoms, spent way too much of our own money in a place that didn't want us, placated and bowed to foreign opinion, and basically bent over to all of our enemies.
And on top of that, the only building built at the WTC site is a FUCKING MOSQUE.
Hmm...maybe the person quoted in the OP is on to something afterall: maybe we shouldn't be proud of where our country has been led over the past decade-plus...our leaders (liberals, all of them) have pretty well fucked up what we had.
