Why do liberals hate America?
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I am a liberal.\n\nDo I hate America? Of course not! I love America, probably more than Conservatives do. I love the ideals of the Declaration of Independence where it states that all men are endowed with the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I cherish the Constitutional notions of checks and balances. I worship the freedoms laid out in the Bill of Rights. I take seriously the welcoming call of the Statue of Liberty to give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.\n\nWhat Conservatives see as "hate" would be more properly described as "disappointment". I am disappointed when our leaders and our nation stray from these sacred American ideals. If there is any hate, it is not for America or Americans, it is for the leadership that betrays America.\n\nIf you love something or someone, then you are particularly concerned when that something or someone turns out to be broken or sick. When your child has a fever, you don't waste time bragging to everyone that he's an honor student, you take him to the doctor. And you don't accuse the doctor of hating your child when he points out that he has an infection. You thank the doctor, you get the prescription antibiotics, and you work hard to heal your child.\n\nFurthermore, you aren't "blaming the child first" by noticing that the child is sick. There's nothing wrong with pointing out America's problems. If you can't identify the problems, you can't begin to solve them. When America has done something wrong, however, I'm more than happy to blame America first. For example, America illegally invaded, occupied, and tortured the people of a sovereign nation that was no threat to us. Who am I supposed to blame for that, France?\n\nIf I see a friend doing something that could hurt him, I don't cheer him on and tell him he's doing the right thing. Admittedly, that would be the easiest (or most amusing, in a sick kind of way) thing to do. The harder—and more responsible—approach is to warn my friend of the dangers of his actions. It might piss him off, but I have to be willing to take that chance.\n\n\nThe danger of all these displays of false patriotism is that they emphasize "American Pride" over any attempt to find solutions to our nation's problems. Those who point out flaws in our way of life do so because they want to see our country live up to the promise of democracy laid out in our Constitution.
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Liberals love you because they support the moral decay of American values.
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it's not about hate, conservatives protect all the liberals and their rights. Liberals would not survive living in a world based on their ideology,they would be eaten alive.
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Five years ago, I would have said they were liberal liars who simply hated America.\n\nToday, I would say they're pretty much spot on.  Over the past 5 years, I have watched in horror as the US trounces human rights, civil liberties, and the protections of the US Constitution - and Americans still re-elected this President.  By a slim margin, true, but that even 50% of us still thought what he was doing was by any means appropriate is to me, perfectly disastrous.\n\nAmericans will never stand up for what it means to be American so long as they have bread and circuses - that is what Roman emperors called 'appeasement of the masses' - so long as they had enough to eat, and entertainment, the Roman citizenry allowed their government to get away with all sorts of atrocities.\n\nSounds familiar, doesn't it.  America.  What a waste of opportunity.
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I don't hate Bush,I hate Liberals.
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because they are liberals !!!!! duh !
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We do. Is there anything anyone can do to get Libs to stop hating America?
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The liberals thrive on pessimissm and hoplessness. If Evil-White-Male-Bush is leading our country to DOOM, then we "need" them to rescue us. After all, America deserved 9/11 for our attitude. America is weak. We should have involved the U.N., despite all those oil kickbacks. The Muslims are really innocent-its the Christian right that are monsters.
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It's the American way, and they saw it on TV. Most of their reasons are unfounded, untrue, childish, and showing ignorance. They call themselves liberals.
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I guess you're talking about the morons on here (and their counterparts in the real world) who spew nothing but hatred for anyone who disagrees with them about anything.\n\n1.  I think they never learned to think for themselves.  They've only been taught WHAT to think, so when they encounter different opinions, all they can do is yell.  They can't hold a reasoned discussion.\n\n2.  They're not really liberals in the truest sense of the word.  A real liberal supports freedom for all people.  They may be social liberals, but I even doubt that. In America, however, the economic liberals have traditionally been called conservatives or libertarians.  When's the last time you heard a so-called "liberal" in America talk about 'economic liberalization'?\n\n3.  It's not really love they feel for people in the developing world.  It's a combination of guilt and pity. They feel guilty because they have something that others don't, and they don't understand why. And they pity the poor people who don't live like them. It's easier to pity, because that carries with it no requirement to effect change.  All you have to do is feel sorry.  If they met real people in a developing nation, they wouldn't really want to associate with them socially, or see them succeed.  Because, after all, success is equal to greed in the modern American liberal's mind.  We wouldn't want to corrupt the helpless with success.  Instead, they just want to give handouts and feel good about themselves.  There's a moral superiority here...they truly believe that they're doing the right thing.  The sad thing is that their policies have perpetuated poverty around the world. \n\nThe confused mind of American "liberals" is a result of not understanding economics.  But only recently has all that confusion turned into outright hatred.  All this hatred doesn't bode well for the future.
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Another hate mongering liberal
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You're wasting your time mate. People, especially AMERICANS like to have their little 'moral panics' (whipped up by the right wing media and the government) it takes their tiny minds away from all the REAL problems, i.e:\n\ntrillions of pounds (oops DOLLARS) in debt, \na crap economy, \na nutter in charge \nthe rest of the world hating you. \n\nNo matter what figure you come up with they'll shout 'liberal lies'. The bottom line is people like a legitimate target for their hatred and right now Mexican immigrants fit the bill. And as for all this 'i only have a problem with illegals' THAT has to be the biggest pile of crap that ive ever read on here and that's saying something!!
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They hate America and the west in general for its support for Israel. They believe Israel, christians, americans, etc.. are all infidels. They are driven by a fanatical religion called islam. And the "peaceful ones" don't speak out or do anything, and they only get angry when someone insults islam.\n\nAnd yes, many "normal" citizens hate USA. They are very anti-american. Most of them are fanatics with islam. In Iran, there are days where they all parade in streets and scream "death to america!" over and over. Are you telling me thats just "some" of the people?\n\nbut Iraq hasn't been very anti-american lately, so may be in the future pro-americanism will spread across there and a more peaceful verson of islam will be created? ( I think theres already one, and it'll probably get more popular, don't forget that christianity and judasisim were pretty vicious religions when they began)\n\n"But most of these Muslim people are family-oriented, peaceful people."\nThe countries don't even have civil rights. women are treated awfully and theres blatant anti-israel and anti-american propaganda there.\n\n\n"If your family members were killed, your house was destroyed, you had no future, you could not travel, and your country was occupied by foreigners intent on taking your resources, would you be inclined to display a smile and say, "have a nice day?"\n\nFor one, if your family members were killed in Iraq (if they were citizens there) they were probably involved with al-quieda. \n\n2) Foreigners taking their resources? Ameriac hasn't stolen any oil, explain why the oil is so high. Saddam hussein took their resources and spent the money all on himself and left the people in poverty. WMDs or not, it was enough to take that phyco out. \n\n3) And, Iraq is not an official republic government. USA has made it clear that they would leave any time Iraq asks them to (Iraq has said they want them to stay until the jobs done).\n\nIMO, I would rather have my country occupied with a nation seeking to free me from an insane dictator than living under the guy for years to come.
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Liberals and hippies are anti-war because they do not understand that safety of America must be secured even outside its borders.
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All of a sudden the view has changed that if you're liberal you hate America.  Why?  I just don't understand this rationale!  Just because we will not accept civil rights abuse, pointless deaths caused by war and harm to our environment?  To me, these things sound like GOOD things for our country, no matter the political party.\n\nI hate that people think that Liberals hate our troops overseas too.  I don't hate our troops at all, actually I support them.\n\nI support them in coming home from this waste of a war!
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The liberal demoncraps hate this country.  They want to steal and shape it into a pseudo-socialist/communist state controlled country of their own.  \nIt is not the right; rather it’s the extremist left wing pushing their atheist fundamentalism onto the people through school indoctrination and media manipulation.  \nWhile pretending to be tolerant, they only portray Christians as criminals and kooks in TV shows and movies.  They deny it was freedom OF, not FROM religion that made this country so great.\nThey claim to be tough on crime but only attack the 2nd amendment rights of the (law abiding) people because they know they can take over easier if the people aren’t armed.  Hitler and Stalin and Franco did the same.\n\nPersonally, I think a vote for Anyone (D)* is a vote against the USA. \n*(Dishonest, Deceptive, Demeaning, Disrespectful, Disingenuous, Duplicitous, Diabolic, Disparaging, Delusional, Disloyal, Delusive, Double-dealing, Defiling, Desecrating, and Dangerous)
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there are many reasons that people hate america. imagine you were say a 10 year old in afghanistan. you just are living your life, you have done absolutely NOTHING wrong, and then the U.S. starts bombing your country. why do they do this... only because the u.s. are extremely oil dependant and greedy!! now i am not talking about al-quaida or anything, but the sentiment in the middle east and many other areas in the world is at a gigantic low since president bush was elected. the u.s. is not what it used to be, a country that helped out others in time of need, but they governed by power crazy men.