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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:04 PM
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Question: Why Does the GOP Hate America?
Question: Why Does the GOP Hate America?
By Nancy Greggs

In the past few years, countless Republicans have inferred, implied, or outright stated that any Democrat or Liberal who disagrees with their agenda must ‘hate America’.

In view of the state of our nation under Republican control, I would ask them the following:

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR TROOPS? You’ve sent them into combat without safety equipment, gutted their pensions and benefits, ignored their families’ needs back home, and stretched their resources to the breaking point.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR CONSTITUTION? You have looked the other way every time your president ignores the restrictions imposed on his office by this cornerstone of our democracy, and have supported policies that excuse his every transgression against our own laws.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR DEMOCRACY? Our democracy depends on transparency of government, and an election process free of manipulation or tampering. You are fully cognizant of secret administration meetings and the dangers of electronic voting machines, and yet you have done nothing to correct the situation.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR COUNTRY’S NATURAL BEAUTY? You have consistently encouraged laws that are detrimental to the environment, and have allowed corporations to destroy our forests, mountains, waterways, and our air.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR CHILDREN? Our educational system is in dire straits, and we are losing our competitive edge globally as a direct result of the lack of funding and oversight.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR FREEDOMS? You keep telling us it’s the ‘terrorists’ who hate us for our freedoms, while you have done everything possible to erode those very freedoms. What’s YOUR excuse?

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR HARD-WORKING CITIZENS? You have handed out tax cuts to the wealthy and encouraged the outsourcing of our jobs. The middle-class is suffering, and you have yet to take a single step in reversing that situation.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR UNITY? You have yet to miss a single opportunity to divide the citizenry on every issue possible, and have encouraged that continued divisiveness for political gain.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR COUNTRYMEN? You have endangered their way of life at every turn on matters of health care, social safety-nets for the poor, the hungry and the homeless.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR NATIONAL SECURITY? You have plundered the treasury to fund unwinnable wars, while failing to implement safety measures at our ports, airports, mass transportation centers, etc.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR COUNTRY’S ALLIES? Your foreign policies have estranged our global friends, and have cost us the respect and cooperation we once enjoyed throughout world, while you continue to follow courses of action that incite those who wish us harm.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR MORAL VALUES? Our country has always stood for liberty, justice and brotherhood; your support of secret prisons, lack of legal recourse for detainees – and now the sanctioning of torture – have led our nation down a path totally contrary to our traditional values.

So the question is out there, Republicans:

Why do YOU hate America?
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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:07 PM
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1. Recommended - Beautifully said!
:thumbsup:
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:07 PM
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2. K&R!!
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:08 PM
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3. Well said... Well stated.....
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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:11 PM
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4. Another great post Nancy
Even some of my friends who are not yet DUer's have e-mailed your stuff. I said, "Hell. she's a DUer."
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:14 PM
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5. You rock!
Another fine post.:hi:
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:23 PM
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6. They don't "hate" America. America is their concubine
just a vessel.
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area51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:25 PM
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7. Excellent.
:thumbsup: :kick:

If you hate America, vote republinazi.


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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:27 PM
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8. I wish I knew some Repukes that I could send this too.
This is the perfect thing to e-mail around the country. Please, people who know rightwingers, do it!

:kick:
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:31 PM
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9. Just got home from a rough day...
...and look what was waiting for me right at the top of the list. Couldn't decide whether to kick or recommend first! (That actually is a weighty decision, when your connection is as slow as mine. ;) )
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pwb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:43 PM
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10. they do these things because they can..sadly they enjoy it
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 05:46 PM
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11. i honestly don't know
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nicknameless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 06:04 PM
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12. Beautiful, Nance.
Nominated.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 06:27 PM
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13. Brava!!! Stay off small planes.
:kick:12!
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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 06:29 PM
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14. Well said. nt
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2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 06:32 PM
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15. kicked, recommended, bookmarked and printing hard copies
i'm going to carry copies of this with me (if that's ok. i mean, your byline will be included on the hard copy, of course)

i want to see how the wingnuts react to THIS
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 06:36 PM
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16. Be my guest!
Thanks for finding this worthwhile enough to pass around!
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 07:43 PM
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17. Love it! Sending out copies by email. (w/ attribution, natch) nt
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 08:04 PM
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18. they love themselves only
they are narcissists

at least those who aren't insane
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 09:12 PM
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19. The Republicans won't answer this question
They don't like to comment on an ongoing investigation...

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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 10:05 PM
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20. Bitter with too much news and cold meds-I answer for the GOP:
Why do they hate the troops?

Deary, it isn't hate but disregard--they are, after all, but pawns, players, bodies to count and feed and arms-carriers to reload. They look so different on paper. They are sheer numbers. We hate to lose by the numbers, but this is what the numbers are there for.


Why do they hate the Constitution?

The Constitution is representative of a revolution in human thinking about government; it audaciously dares to propose that a government may be of, by and for the people--granted, but which people? It grants freedoms inappropriate and unthinkable to the rule of the wise and powerful and wealthy over their betters. It's a boring thought experiment by bleeding heart altruists.

Why do they hate our Democracy?

Democracy is nothing less than rule by the many--the people, and people naturally are base and barbarian. They care for little but to eat and screw their pitiful lives away, instead of working for their rightful masters--how dare they think they have a say in the world and how it should be run?

Why do they hate our country's natural beauty?

If by natural beauty, you mean our nation's many material resources, we hate it not at all--we'd do anything to exploit it, because of what it represents--sweet, sweet money. As for why we do what we do to it, you need look no further than the bible--it say (I paraphrase the Bible by way of Ann Coulter) "take it, rape it, it's yours." Meaning, ours. The deserving rich.

Why do you hate our children?

Why should anyone love your children? They are devourers of plenty that could otherwise be hoarded for the deserving rich. They are useless eaters, not yet able to work for their plenty. They are ignorant, and better off so, so that they can't fight back.

Why do you hate our freedoms?

Why do you think you should have them? They are inconvenient to your leaders, who know best. They spread knowledge you need not have, and provoke ideas you should not entertain. This can lead to revolution--and although this nation was formed by revolution--it does not need to continue in its so-called noble legacy of "freedom", "liberty", or whatever other egalitarian nonsense rings in plebian ears.

Why do you hate hard-working citizens?

Don't you know what kind of overhead you "citizens" represent? With your insistence on such things as vacations and sick time and health care, and a limited work week--you are all pathetic, human, replaceable. You cost a fortune that again, is better in the pockets of the deserving rich.

Why do you hate our unity?

You obviously, as peasants, have not read Machiavelli or Sun Tsu. Pity. But all who know the music of the 1960's knows "United we stand, divided we fall." Unified, you might be powerful enough to break the chains of ignorance and oppression--divided by so many things, racism, the so-called "culture war" and other distractions, you are weak enough to be easily managed.

Why do you hate your countrymen?

You obviously don't savvy the difference between countrymen and class men. We are quite loyal to those of our class, but truly--what can our countrymen do for us? Whatever they can do, they shall do by coercion, for if they knew the ends they did it for, they would never volunteer (speaking otherwise killed Kennedy--or perhaps I say too much?)

Why do we hate our national security?

A successful national security leaves a complacent populace, and while complacency is nice, it can in rare instances bolster the confidence of the brave, and create effective opposition to what we represent. Therefore, a faulty national security means insecurity--fear, the big stick to beat the masses into their corrals. The only thing you have to fear is fear itself--the thing we have to fear is--fearlessness. An actual act of courage is an astounding thing--which must be dissected to better understand and combat--like cancer.

Why do we hate our countries' allies?

The thing is: are there such things as allies? In truth, there are but two conditions to which another nation might aspire--a vassal state--like Britain, our former empire, which now does our bidding, and potential conquests--nations we will subdue until they do our bidding. This is what empire means, what it is. We make our history, our present, our future, our paradigm. Other nations may agree-or be squashed.

Why do we hate our country's moral values?

Moral values are an excellent incentive to good behavior, amongst the sheeple, but for the Supermen, they are a hindrance. They represent the conditioning of a slave morality (sklav-moral), nothing more. To those who would do well, abandon your provincial ethics, and embrace the creed of a master--support the GOP! Long live the Empire!

(I in no way endorse this bitter Q&A except as my own feeble attempt to grasp what goes on in the Authoritarian mind. I can be disregarded as an Anthropologist of sorts, trying to describe some other pack of primates. I may be off, but in my worst fears about humankind--these are the answers I forsee.)


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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-07-06 12:43 AM
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23. Please, please, please ...
... I'm beggin' you! THIS is an excellent piece of writing that deserves its own thread. A truly (dark and bleak) look into the GOP mindset that has set our nation on its present course.

Well done -- EXTREMELY well done, VixenGirl!!!

:applause:
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-07-06 06:54 AM
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24. Thanks--that means a lot!
And I've started my own thread :)
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-06-06 10:42 PM
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21. The don't hate America.....
They just don't care. With the Neocons it's about power and money. For themselves. As for the rest of us, they don't give a damn.
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hsher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-07-06 12:09 AM
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22. Because, Nancy, they're...
Because they're fascists.


www.yourmorningleibowitz.blogspot.com
Yer Daily Show comic strip
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-07-06 04:05 PM
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25. The $64B question: why do tens of millions of Amerikans still support GOP
policies, actions, and wars and candidate while realizing the validity of Nancy's questions? Are they really that ignorant or brain-dead/brainwashed or do they really love what, like torture, the GOP is doing to destroy this Republic?
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2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-07-06 05:10 PM
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26. kick (nt)
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