Posted on 11/19/2019 4:50:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Whenever leftists are charged with not loving or even with hating America, they respond angrily, labeling the question absurd, mean-spirited and an example of right-wing McCarthyism.
But there can be little doubt that the left has no love for America, just as there can be little doubt that liberals and conservatives love America. Love of America is one of the many dividing lines between liberalism and leftism. (For a description of six differences between liberalism and leftism, please see my PragerU video "Left or Liberal?")
Here are six reasons to believe the left hates America:
1. No one denies that the international left -- the left in Europe, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere -- hates America. Therefore, in order to argue that American leftists do not hate America, one would have to argue that on one of the most fundamental principles of international leftism -- hatred of America -- American leftists differ with fellow leftists around the world: All the world's left hates the U.S., but the American left loves it.
This, of course, makes no sense. Leftists around the world agree on every important issue. Why, then, would they differ with regard to America? Has any leftist at The New York Times, for example, written one column critical of the international left's anti-Americanism?
2. Leftists want to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Five days before the 2008 presidential election, candidate Barack Obama told a huge audience in Columbia, Missouri, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
More recently, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced that she plans to "fundamentally transform our government," that America needs "big, structural change" and that her proposed Accountable Capitalism Act would bring about "fundamental change."
Likewise, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said earlier this year, "We're going to try to transform the United States of America," and last month he said, "This campaign is about fundamental change."
Examples are legion.
So, here's a question: How can one claim to love what one wishes to fundamentally transform?
The answer is obvious: It isn't possible.
If a man were to confide to you that he wants to fundamentally transform his wife, would you assume he loves his wife? If a woman were to tell you she wants to fundamentally transform her husband, would you assume she loves him? Of course not.
3. Leftists have contempt for the American flag.
I am unaware of a single left-wing individual or organization that has condemned NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for refusing to stand for the flag during the playing or singing of the national anthem that precedes NFL games. To the contrary, on the left, he is universally regarded as a hero. Indeed, Nike anointed him as one, making him its brand model.
Leftists might respond that Kaepernick's public refusal to stand for the flag and national anthem says nothing about his love for America, as it is only a form of protest against racial injustice. But that is nonsense. Would leftists argue that anyone who publicly refuses to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day really loves Dr. King?
4. Leftists routinely describe America as racist, sexist, xenophobic, imperialist, genocidal, homophobic, obsessed with money and morally inferior to most Western European countries. No moral person could love such a place. As one person commenting on a Paul Krugman column wrote, "Does loving your country mean you love or ignore the fact that we destroyed Iraq, shot down an Iranian commercial airliner, and waged a brutal war in Asia for reasons that today make no sense?"
5. America is the most successful country in world history -- while being the most committed to capitalism and remaining the most religious of all the industrialized democracies. To the extent that America is great, that means two of the institutions the left most loathes -- Christianity and capitalism -- are also great.
6. Love is, among other things, an emotion. So, here is a question about leftists' emotions: Do any leftists get the chills when the national anthem is played or when they see the American flag waving as the anthem is played? Given their rhetoric, it is most unlikely. Yet, every person I know who loves America does get a chill at such moments. Do leftists, as opposed to some liberals and conservatives, display the flag on any national holiday? How many leftists even own a flag?
Finally, if leftists do not love America, what do they love?
According to their own rhetoric, they love the planet -- Mother Earth, as they frequently refer to it. And they love animals.
They really love power, and they claim to love material equality.
They don't love Western culture -- and they now dismiss praise for it as a euphemism for white supremacy.
Interestingly, while they often claim to love humanity, many don't seem to love people. They give less charity and volunteer less time to the downtrodden than conservatives, for example. They have much less interest in having children and making families. They are far more likely than conservatives to cut off relations with friends or relatives with whom they differ politically. And if they really loved people, they would love capitalism because only capitalism has lifted billions of people from poverty.
But most of all, they love ... themselves.
Hate is envy that has aged. If you accuse a leftist of vanity or envy they will deny that with vigor too. The 7 deadly sins have become the 7 Democrat principles.
They hate the ones who love it....us.
Yes.
Is the Pope a Commie?
“Yes.”
Emotions, such as love or hate, are the physical result of prior thoughts and values. Leftards reject traditional values of America, which are based on pro-freedom thinking, so they hate it
They are the intelligent people, understanding science and climate change, and who are beyond religion - which is for those small un-woke people clinging to their bibles and guns. They are the ones who embrace diversity, and who know that Islam truly is the ‘religion of peace’, and that Israel has provoked them and is the true roadblock to peace in the Middle East.
They understand that someone like Trump should never be in any elected office, because he's not knowledgeable about government, and could never see and understand the nuance that they do, and that AOC does.
They understand that people like AOC, and Tlaib, and Omar are the future, because they are the ones who truly know and understand the scourge that is US imperialism.
No, they don't love America. As Hillary once said, ‘I love the America that could be’.
The Left doesn’t believe in borders, they believe in One World Government with a few elite calling the shots.
Your comment supports what I have always believed. The Left in America has a committed core of true believers who have positioned themselves to manipulate others, particularly young people on college campuses. For the most part, the desire to be cool and part of something results in the young suspending critical thinking. It is so much easier to let the professor or the activist tell them what to believe then to risk alienation by thinking for themselves.
Including Article 58 ...
Does a hungry wolf love sheep?
Shortly, yes. The formula is always the same: find an imperfection, claim that it is a fundamental characteristic of the system, revel in moral superiority. Those strictures do not apply to leftism itself; its failures are always somebody else’s fault.
Journalism exists to report bad news. It’s how they attract audience.Bad news reflects poorly on society, and suggests the need for more government.
Knowing that journalism is negative towards society, journalism claims to be objective. But “negativity equals objectivity” is cynicism.
Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naiveté towards government.
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