Conservatives and libertarians, love America as one would love a spouse. We cherish America, and everything she stands for. We respect America. And we would do anything to defend her.
Liberals, “love” America the way an abusive spouse “loves”.
They want to control America. They want to change America.
They want America to obey their ideas, of what America should be. And they are perfectly willing to harm America, if that’s what it takes.
That’s not love.
That’s “control freak”.
I could not have said it better. Perfecto!
Wow. Very, very well said!
Precisely! One doesn’t express love and affection by constantly punching and kicking the supposed object of that love and affection. The author’s got one thing right though; at least half of this country is schizophrenic and it’s not the conservative half.
Exactly!
Your analogy captures it perfectly. I’ll try to remember it for future use.
I guess Rick Moran is trying to be fair to liberals but the fact is that they’re aligned with an ideology that is explicitly anti-American and it shows. Liberals are dilute leftists, which unfortunately means liberals are dilute anti-Americans. Granted it’s a continuum and your average liberal doesn’t hate America like a full-blown lefty does, but the tendency is still there.
Also, to say that liberal anti-Americanism is really just patriotic criticism is to give liberals way too much credit. If their criticism were designed to point America back to its founding principles, this would be true. But that’s not the nature of their criticism. The principles liberals love are those of the New Deal and the Great Society, not the Constitution and the Declaration. They criticize America because it’s not the European style soft-socialist welfare state they wish it were, which is not exactly patriotic.