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Can the “Very Liberal” Celebrate Independence Day?
Townhall.com ^ | July 4, 2016 | Jack Kerwick

Posted on 07/05/2016 7:31:18 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/05/2016 7:31:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Not really as they are totalitarian.


2 posted on 07/05/2016 7:39:09 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Kaslin

There are people here hate this country and are unhappy with it.

Then are foreigners like Muslims, who can’t abide America for more or less the same reasons.

Which leads to the old, trite and true adage: love it or leave it!

If you don’t love America, this will never be your country.


3 posted on 07/05/2016 7:41:27 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Kaslin

As I watched some of the July 4th specials I wondered how many libs would have voted to stay a part of the British Empire if they’d had a voice. After all, they think we’re just one big global community.


4 posted on 07/05/2016 7:41:28 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dallrymple)
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To: Kaslin

is this the girly-man who whimpered and was so scared when he had to fire an AR-15?


5 posted on 07/05/2016 7:41:30 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: Sans-Culotte

I suspect if we were in the EuSSR, our liberals would have overwhelmingly voted Remain.

Nationhood like apple pie and motherhood, is a foreign concept to them.

They’re allergic to patriotism.


6 posted on 07/05/2016 7:43:25 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Kaslin

I’d like them to change the line about white foam.


7 posted on 07/05/2016 7:43:45 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
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To: Kaslin

Liberal are the reason for America’s loss of liberty; therefore, they are awaiting the next Muslim holiday.


8 posted on 07/05/2016 7:44:46 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve long believed that when “liberals” invoke patriotism, it is only as a rhetorical device intended to mask their true objectives. It is used as a way to bully political opponents into agreeing with or yielding to some aspect of the liberal agenda, as when they might say that opposing gay marriage is “unpatriotic” or “not who we are as Americans.”


9 posted on 07/05/2016 7:45:51 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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I don’t think the very liberal can celebrate anything about this country.

Liberals consistently are bitter angry people, who are perpetually pissed off about what they perceive as being wrong with this country and our history.

Rather than ever being happy or saying anything about what is positive about this country, they instead are pissed off all the time, and only talk about perceived wrongs, and focus on what is wrong with this country.


10 posted on 07/05/2016 7:46:07 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Independence inherently requires an “us vs them”.
An honest earnest Liberal rejects such division, setting no “them” to be independent of; to the contrary, any identifiable difference invokes the “us” for Liberals.
A Leftist (who may use the label “Liberal” only as a deception to gain power, then dropping the facade to go full-on totalitarian) identifies “them” as Right-leaning fellow citizens, so is not “independent” due to living among the enemy.
Either way, they cannot celebrate Independence Day as they are not “independent” by any measure meaningful to them.


11 posted on 07/05/2016 7:48:35 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("Get the he11 out of my way!" - John Galt)
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To: Kaslin

Celebrating “old, outdated” documents written by a bunch of “old European white guys” doesn’t make any sense but liberals never do anything that makes any sense to normal people, especially normal Americans.


12 posted on 07/05/2016 7:51:18 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: DarthVader
“Not really as they are totalitarian.”

Right you are, if anything they are in mourning because the individual has too many rights.

13 posted on 07/05/2016 7:53:05 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: Kaslin

It appears as though Kuntzmann has gotten over his bout with PTSD. Whew!


14 posted on 07/05/2016 7:54:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: 2001convSVT

I have come to the sad conclusion over a period of the last 3 months that they are hopeless domestic enemies of the republic and there is only one way to deal with it as regrettable as it may be.


15 posted on 07/05/2016 7:55:06 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Liberals are always angry because that damned square peg will just not fit into that round hole, no matter how hard and how many times they try. Liberty is the round hole, socialism is the square peg.


16 posted on 07/05/2016 7:57:00 AM PDT by Doche2X2
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He most likely never suffered from it.


17 posted on 07/05/2016 7:57:39 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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Here's what I see as the problem with liberals and patriotism to this country.

It all comes down to being ungrateful.

You read Alexis de Tocqueville, the world envied America. She had MANY great attributes. But liberals are spoiled brats. Instead of focusing on the MANY great things of America, they choose instead to focus on the few negatives...OR...PERCEIVED negatives.

It's part of the victim mindset. It's part of greed. It's part of envy.

Conservatives are overwhelmingly made up of Christians. Christians are taught to avoid greed, envy and malice. The very things liberals embrace. Christians view what they have AND this country as a gift from God, thereby requiring their thankfulness.

Liberals have chosen to deny God. If you choose to deny God, either in recognition or deed, than thankfulness is going to be hard to come by.

Granted, not all conservatives are Christians. But, conservatives that aren't Christians still have a better world view and are grateful for what they DO HAVE, versus what they think they don't.

In the end, liberals remind me of the little 7 year old kid, who gets free a scoop of chocolate ice cream and screams "unfair" when he sees someone else with a scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sprinkles on it.

Everything in life for liberals is a temper tantrum.

Temper tantrums run counter to gratefulness and patriotism.

18 posted on 07/05/2016 8:01:19 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Mr. K

Gersh KUNTzman is the whiny faggot who got a bruised shoulder, nausea, and PTSD from shooting an AR-15.


19 posted on 07/05/2016 8:02:12 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Kaslin
Can the “Very Liberal” Celebrate Independence Day?

No, but in the spirit of participation trophies, just so they won't feel left out, we'll create a new holiday specific to them: Dependence Day.

20 posted on 07/05/2016 8:04:33 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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