Conservatives want to keep America pretty much as it is. Progressives want to "fundamentally transform America" (Obama's words) into something completely different. Clearly, conservatives love America and progressives hate it.
If you had a brain...
Plenty of irony of the week nominees this week.
I do not plan to keep noting the next 50 or 100 times werepossum repeats his same old lies about liberals - and conservatives too, it turns out, his straw men, it's a hassle.
But this is just that.
The right are the ones who want to 'fundamentally change America' into the version they think it should be; who want to reverse most of the last century's progress.
This is where their imagined version they like to pretend (wrongly) is somehow more 'pure' back to the founding fathers is better than what America is.
Obama talked of 'fundamentally changing' America in the 2008 campaign - when what Bush and Republicans had changed America with was very unpopular.
At the point of a massive economic crash and threat, with records in moving to plutocracy. My recollection is he was talking about changing those bad policies.
And we have people on the right lie about what this means, to the absurdity of werepossum's lies.
The first entry a google returned sounded a lot like werepossum, showing how this group views things:
To fundamentally transform America requires that liberty, freedom, our birthrights and our private property are transformed and no longer a fundamental precept of our country.
What exactly does he want to transform us into?
A Marxist state tyranny where Whites, Jews and Christians will be purged and misery is applied equally among the little people while the Elites running a politburo are enriched off of our substance.
You elect this Hitlerian Madman at the peril of your own freedom America.
Yes, more straw men. Clearly Obama wanted to do those things, and change the US into a "Marxist state tyranny" with purges and so on.
Clearly, Obama is a "Hitlerian madman". Werepossum may know enough to stop short of that language, but the flaws are the same type. His comments are no less absurd.
These people are so irrational, they're little more than an attack on the founding father's assumptions that citizens were rational and self-governance was practical.
The right, in its haze of being propagandized by the special interests, champion policies that would make America things it has never been - just as we are already seeing things from them that have never been the case, with corporations hitting new highs in power, with zero wealth after inflation going to the bottom 80% and the top 0.1% getting by far the large share, with the basic ideas of democracy being challenged by the right, that the people have no business actually having government actually do almost anything that represents their interests, that counters the concentrated power of the few most powerful.
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