its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.
Joseph Stalin
Posted on 02/24/2015 5:38:47 AM PST by Kaslin
I’ll just say it:
I don’t love America. Did the aplstle Paul love Rome? Did Jesus?
Countries come and go. And I said way back in the early 90’s that I felt like a Jew in early 30’s Germany.
And to make it REALLY clear - I don’t love what America has become. As P. J O’Roarke once said(at least 20 years ago), and I paraphrase: Do you find yourself asking why American voters select the leaders they do? Well, have you seen the tv and movies they watch, the books they read? Hell, HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE MALL AND SEEN ‘EM?!
As a nation, we are no longer the good guys.
bttt
“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur,” -—Barack Obama
And the terrorists would gladly chop their heads off first in line.
I’m with you in spirit, but not to pick nits, the US is not Jerusalem. ;-)
Also, you could say I feel about the US the way Jesus felt about Jerusalem when he weeped for it.
I know what you’re saying. But I do love America. I love the gov’t founded on God that our founding fathers built. I love the Christian moral streak that abolished slavery and other ills. I love the million plus soldiers that laid down their life for my freedoms. I love the exceptionalism and the shing city on a hill that provided a refuge for downtrodden people elsewhere. No, I do not love the liberal, godless, shell it has become. It makes me want to cry. We have been blessed with so much and instead we turn to Sodom and Gomorrah as examples.
I get what you are saing, but it’s kinda like saying I love the Bill Cosby I knew before last year.
No better evidence that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Whether you’re talking about cop killers, terrorists, radical Islamists or dictators, all you have to do is say, “I hate America,” and liberals start to sympathize with you. Rush
I did when I was a kid. Big time.
But now? Not so much...my illusions have faded away.
I love the American ideals and the people who live them. I think the Constitution is the best legal document on Earth and am glad it’s the one I live under. I am grateful to George Washington for refusing to be made king. I am grateful to Calvin Coolidge for demonstrating that capitalism works, by refusing to use the government “rescue” the people from a recession/depression/whatever you want to label it.
OTOH, public schooling has decimating the US; the public as a whole doesn’t know or understand their own Constitution, and not only woefully ignorant about economics, but also generally lacks the training in logic and in the scientific method necessary to remedy that. Sadly, we have the government a lot of people want, which is not the kind of government that made America great.
Even worse, it is not an issue of “Republican versus Democrat,” because neither party truly believes in returning power to the people. The main dispute between the two parties is about what the government should do — crony capitalism versus outright socialism — not about what role the government should play in individual’s lives.
America was great. Whether it will be great again is very much debatable. I love the promise of America; I don’t love the present America, but I haven’t given up on that promise.
I was in grade school in the early 60’s. I got a lot of propaganda about how bad the Soviet Union was.
I find myself, a lot in the last four years, commenting on how a thing the government is doing to us is reminiscent of those things I was told were so bad about the Soviet Union by my public schools.
It happens more and more. A simple example: I would like to start a certain small business, but I believe it would be such a fight with the government - at all levels, that it’s just not worth the hassle. It should not be that way.
(On a side note, I more or less grew up where you moved to, but I moved away after grade school. I’m sorry to hear it’s now that way there also.)
No. I’m mostly talking about Seattle (where I moved from). My concerns here are more with the federal government. I tell people that moving here (Taylor county) was like going back in time 50 years in a LOT of very GOOD ways.
I smile every time I see a pickup go by with people riding in the back. That would be unheard of in many places.
Or Wal-Mart. Brain bleach city....
If we could just enforce federalism.
Let them have their “America”, we can have ours, and they can’t affect us nor we them.
But, they can’t stand that to happen - people living outside of their control, doing things that they don’t approve of, having attitudes that they don’t like.
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