Where do these idiots get this idea? They fling it off the cuff as if it means something. "Liberals hate America."
Uh...no.
We hate some of the shortsighted, wrongheaded, callous strategies the Right (Wrong) Wing espouses, the ones that leave thousands of American soldiers dead or maimed, tens of thousands of innnocent people dead or wounded, and returning vets without proper care because their benefits have been sliced to ribbons.
We hate the policies that pretend to consider education important, while underfunding any program that actually promotes educational opportunities.
We hate the policies that refuse to allow a living wage to American workers, yet subsidize what amounts to slave labor in other parts of the world.
We hate the fact that the media goes along with all the lies and disinformation this administration spews like vomit after sixteen straight shots of rotgut whiskey.
We hate that, despite having some of the best medical technology in the world, many Americans are one critical injury or illness away from abject poverty...or a lifetime of debt.
We hate the fact that some people use a religion that was originally meant to be all-encompassing (remember the compassion of Jesus Christ and compare it to the lack of compassion in those who claim to follow Him) to slander and spit upon people who don't see things the same way.
We hate that some people think it's better to be polluters than the kind of people who want to STOP pollution. We hate the fact that some people think it's better to be the folks throwing mercury into the water, or noxious filth into the air, than the kind of "treehuggers" who want to stop this sort of stuff.
No, we don't hate America. We just hate the sort of Americans that make us regret sharing a country with them, who do things in OUR name that we're not proud of, and say things that make us want to scream in absolute disdain "WE DIDN'T AGREE TO THIS!"
We LOVE what America could have been--the ideal that evil, selfish people have stolen away...we love the REAL America, not this changeling child those people have tried to put in its place.
Talk about the ultimate bait and switch.
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Of course, the exact same can be said of the right, which is constantly pushing to regress the nation back to a time when religion governed society, freedoms were limited, rule of law was confined to those who were not of aristocratic, noble blood, little was offered to enrich and enpower the masses, and dissent was met with harsh, draconian punishment.
Of course, both sides are correct. Reality is what one's perception is. So, liberals are correct in pursuing a goal of making the whole of society better fed, better housed, better educated, better paid, better taken care of medically, and more peaceful and loving, because this is what they view the founders having envisioned for America.
Conversely, so too are regressives correct when they push for a return to fuedal days, when Lords ruled over peasants and the only true beneficiaries were those who held great wealth, because, in their minds, THIS is what the founders had envisioned for America.
Such is the paradox of living in America. Both sides can be labeled "America haters," because both wish to see changes made. The difference lies in which direction the change moves us, forward or backward.