I’ve been thinking about this amped up conservative rhetoric that liberals and leftists hate America. We all know that’s BS. Right? Except it’s not, and we should respond to it for what it is.
“I love an America I grew up in. I love an America I believe in, that I lived most of my life in. Now, the idea of America that you’re fighting and “winning” for is killing that America I live in, that I love. So you’re right. I hate what you imagine America to be… because it is trying to murder the America that I love. And I don’t use the word “murder” lightly, and I apply it to you. And if that means to you that I hate America… then you’re right! The America you believe in isn’t lovable.”
That’s all.
It’s pretty weird, the fetish some people have for imaginary regions on a map. America only exists as a collective hallucination that people agree to in order to give themselves a good reason to feel superior to others.
I don’t love America at all, and even though I live in the place known as America, I would feel absolutely nothing for it if it ceased to exist tomorrow. I certainly wouldn’t fight for it.