Not sure it has the impact I'm looking for. This is for an academic argument with someone who says the KKK represents America but MLK doesn't--essentially the kind of myopic intellectual who accedes patriotism and the flag to conservatives and dismisses all arguments based on the Constitution as the "work of slaveholders".

You've got somebody with major blinders on.
I will think some more.
How academic is this guy?

You knew it was a male from the obstinacy.

But you were wrong to assume it was singular. It's a pack of gentlemen. Argument isn't good enough. I need the power of poetic imagery to win.

The opposite of rose colored glasses is blinders!!

Thank you!!

Even though I did it inadvertently.

I think "Donnie Downer" would work.

Feces filters?

Blinded by bowel movements?

-JB

It's all bad.

Merde colored glasses.

My wife wears them when it comes to her kids.

probably entered while you were typing. Exactly, though. The perfect metaphor. Thanks.

Winnie the Pooh's sad donkey friend. A guy I used to work with had such a negative attitude towards everything that his nickname (behind is back) was Eeyore.

Appropriated from the shitstain that was Spiro Agnew.

Sh*t-stained glasses(copyright)?

need a lot of help to see through the encroaching darkiness.

Were the best I found

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/174738/pessimism-idiom-opposite-of-rose-tinted-glasses

It's entered my idiolect.

Thanks!

Should I copyright it?

It's unmistakable in it's descriptiveness

or cherry tree picking, in the case of George Washington

Looking at the firing squad through a blindfold.