One third of Democrats think America is “unfair and discriminatory”
Ace dealt with this in some clever posts, (eg, “I love the America that can be,” but not the one that actually is). Michael Barone raises it today from the perspective of the Rove comments and the polling data. Here is the Rasmussen question he cites, showing that fully 32% of Democrats apparently think America is a bad country (“unfair and discriminatory”):
One reason that the Democrats are squawking so much about Rove’s attack on “liberals” is that he has put the focus on a fundamental split in the Democratic Party — a split among its politicians and its voters….
University and media elites, as Thomas Sowell writes in his forthcoming “Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” promote a version of history in which all evils are perpetrated by the United States and the West and in which Third World tyrants are assumed to be the voice of virtuous victims. These elites fail to notice that slavery was a universal institution until opposed only by altruists in the West, in late 18th century Britain and 19th century America.
It comes naturally to those liberal politicians whose worldview is set by these elites to suppose that Saddam’s Iraq was the land of happy kite-flyers portrayed in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ and that, as Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said in a carefully prepared speech, American actions in Guantanamo are comparable to acts of the Nazis, Soviets and Khmer Rouge.
It comes naturally to Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean to proclaim that Saddam Hussein should be presumed innocent pending trial but that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay should be consigned to jail for offenses with which he has not even been charged.
Half the Senate Democrats attended the Washington premiere of Moore’s movie and laughed and cheered its ridicule of Bush and denunciation of American policy….
Disliking your country would appear a dead-end street for a party that wants to be a presidential majority. We’ll see what happens.
June 27th, 2005 at 11:54 am
The America that ‘is’ is the one that I want to live in. Everyone who doesn’t want to live in it can go back to their spiritual incubator…France.
August 20th, 2005 at 8:42 am
To the extent that America is liberal they are right!
Abortion -should we love America for murdering over 40 million of its most innocent and perverting the names mother and physician forever?
Defense – they have instinctively emasulated our defense system every way , every chance they get -(budget cuts-defensive laisse faire – and anti-war moral tone and activities)
Economy – Soak the rich -class warfare – the politics of envy.
Tort worship – all deep pocket companies are evil -conviscate their $$ for our trial lawyer friends.
Education – take away parent rights – teach eco-nonsense and don’t ever pray.
Science: they have politicized science to such things as “the politics of global warming”
Entertainment – it is said in some circles tha even Satan himself isn’t mature enough to watch the trash the saturate us with.
News; They have,through their media friends, destroyed the concept of unbiased reporting. They have reneged on the covenent with the 1st. amendment.
Citizenship: They have successfully used special interest groups to divide America(blacks -gays- unions – radical feminists – environuts -educators) -”not one nation indivisible under God anymore” They have segregated the melting Pot for their advantage.
Religion: they have practically eliminated God from the public (and I’m afraid, private) spheres
So when someone says they don’t love America any more – ask why.
Remember Reagan’ great line about his party leaving him, well this country under the onslaught of liberalism is leaving a lot of us!