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.
gotta be honest, I hate America. I was born here, raised here, paid taxes for 20-something years. I’m a born and bred corn-fed American boy. I understand why people shout “death to America”. i understand why people call it the Great Satan. the death and destruction this country has wrought across the globe is immeasurable. from chemical weapons in Vietnam, eradication campaigns in the Korean war, two destructive invasions of Iraq, reinforcing the opium trade all across the world but specifically in Afghanistan, the list goes on.
if you don’t want to count foreign atrocities, just look to the homeland. generations of slavery, and “post-slavery” discrimination have destroyed generations of people. every homeless person in every city is a person failed by their own government, left to rot on the streets because they’ve been deemed worthless, many of them disabled veterans who themselves believed they were fighting for something better. this country has failed them, abandoned them. I don’t know how anyone could be proud of that.