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America: Love it or Leave it?
That’s been a popular rallying cry of Conservatives well for over half-a-century.
Its peak of popularity came during the late 1960s and early 1970s when Americans divided sharply over the Vietnam war. That, and its kissin’ cousin My country, wrong or right, were common retorts to war protestors. But over the years it’s also been hurled at progressives who have advocated everything from civil rights to renewable energy.
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Now it’s far-right Conservatives who are so very hostile to our democratic laws. In fact, they’re so hostile that they aren’t just symbolically attacking our constitutional system of national government, they’re literally attacking it, actually driving it to its knees.
Apoplectic over the Affordable Care Act, which was passed by both houses of Congress, signed by the President, and sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court, it is the far right wing that has engineered a substantial crippling of the federal government.
https://www.thepublicprofessor.com/america-love-it-or-leave-it/
Its peak of popularity came during the late 1960s and early 1970s when Americans divided sharply over the Vietnam war. That, and its kissin’ cousin My country, wrong or right, were common retorts to war protestors. But over the years it’s also been hurled at progressives who have advocated everything from civil rights to renewable energy.
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Now it’s far-right Conservatives who are so very hostile to our democratic laws. In fact, they’re so hostile that they aren’t just symbolically attacking our constitutional system of national government, they’re literally attacking it, actually driving it to its knees.
Apoplectic over the Affordable Care Act, which was passed by both houses of Congress, signed by the President, and sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court, it is the far right wing that has engineered a substantial crippling of the federal government.
https://www.thepublicprofessor.com/america-love-it-or-leave-it/
The Orange Anus-Mouth and his far-right, misogynistic, racist, co-conspirators and traitors have been trying to resurrect Nixon's pro-war, pro-racist slogan by replacing it with MAGA. America, since its inception, has always been a racist, whites-only club of politicians and capitalists -- plantation owners.
The America that we Democrats have been trying to build is described eloquently in the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
That describes the America that I will love when it arrives.
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