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.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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      I can vote, and I can agitate for change for the better, which is what I said in my very first post. We are betraying the diversity and inclusion that is central to the things that made this nation better.

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        Voting has no tangible impact on the fact that whatever figurehead you elect will serve the same capitalist system and will continue to enact the same overall agenda of american imperialist domination by any means necessary, including genocide. Your rights as a worker will still be slowly eroded and your country will still fall apart as your ruling class strips it for parts. Wake up. Your nation was never great, never inclusive, always a white supremacist shit hole, every victory of civil rights and minority rights has been against the best efforts of your civil societies. It’s over.

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            I love America.
            I can vote
            It’s not over until we stop fighting.
            defeatist attitude

            wonder-who-thats-for

            If you love America, and you think voting will be able to “fix” it, you have always already been defeated. That’s what we are trying to tell you. Your idealism of “America” is not real. And you being proud of that ideal in spite of all the very real death, exploitation, destruction in service of capitalism that “America” exists to maintain is you defeating yourself publicly.

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            No you don’t get it. It’s over for any delusions about america being a force for good or for the possibility that faith in its institutions can ever lead to positive change for humanity. America has always been a genocidal shit hole. End of.