Does the Left Hate America?
American Greatness,
by
Dennis Prager
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
11/20/2019 6:35:34 AM
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:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
berthabutt 11/20/2019 8:07:54 AM (No. 240023)
Nearly as deeply as they hate themselves. Ask Lucifer how that worked out.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 11/20/2019 8:15:01 AM (No. 240031)
FTA - "Finally, if leftists do not love America, what do they love?"
They love to hate. It makes them feel superior and creates the boogeymen they need to exist.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/20/2019 8:15:24 AM (No. 240032)
I get a lump in my throat and goosebumps every time I hear the National Anthem, especially at events like July 4th concerts and baseball games. Been that way as long as I can remember.
I was once chatting with a friend about how much we love red, white and blue decorations, clothing, embroidery, etc when a leftist acquaintance overheard us and asked why. Why? We told her that we were patriots who loved our country. She turned around and walked away.
I lived behind the Iron Curtain for 3 years in the Socialist Republic of Romania under the Ceausescus, and have had an up close and personal look at what the left is pushing. Any sane person would want no part of it. Which explains the utter insanity to the anti-Trumpers these days.
America. Love it or get the eff out!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Remnants 11/20/2019 8:31:51 AM (No. 240052)
What don't they hate?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 11/20/2019 8:40:46 AM (No. 240063)
Pardon my pomposity for thinking I can add clarity to the great work of Dennis Prager but I see three distinct columns of attack against America.
First, Communists true believers: The totalitarian collectivism of the Bolshevik revolution is alive and well and still determined to take over the entire world.
Second Useful Idiots: As we have learned throughout history, to garner the support of the masses you have to offer to provide all sort of benefits to them, identify a target that stands between you and what you can hand out, and demonize that target to energize the useful idiots.
Third Political Elites: We have a class of ruling elites who see our immense wealth and how they can abscond with it. They themselves are not zealots but they’ll play one on TV in any role if it gets them to the trough of corruption. Some pretend to support the Tea Party, some pretend to support the LBGQT community, some fan the remaining ember of racial division. They also make use of the useful idiots.
The demonetization of constitution grounded Americans suit both the Bolsheviks and the elite ruling class of thieves. The former must eliminate us because we stand in the way of their revolution and the elites need to demonize us so that idiots are justified to spit, slander, shun, fire us from our jobs and steal from us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/20/2019 9:10:25 AM (No. 240097)
Hatred can be mindless, and that sums up a lot of the left. Look at people like Maxine Waters or AOC. Does the left hate America? Definitely. Just listen to what they say.
The left has become a haven for anyone that wants to make a quick buck at the expense of everyone around them. They are utterly corrupt. They may talk about saving the planet, social justice, and equality, but they are just using stuff like that so they can advance their real interests which are basically, themselves.
America doesn't stand for anything the left wants. That's why they hate America.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jjs 11/20/2019 9:22:15 AM (No. 240111)
Does the Left Hate America? No, the left just hates. Most are driven by tribal ignorance and lead by psychopaths.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/20/2019 9:26:30 AM (No. 240118)
Indeed, the left hates everything about our great nation. Thanks to the academic intelligencia and the Soros-types who are busily poisoning the world.
Incidentally, #3, I too, spent time in Romania on business, but after Ceausescu and his wife were dispatched. The damage from the mortar rounds on the presidential palace walls from the coup remains to this day as reminder to all citizens as to the terrible oppression they once lived under. My favorite moment was while I was taking a walk one February evening near the embassy district in Bucharest. It was cold that night. While walking past one of the embassy residences, a young and well-armed Romanian soldier who was guarding the premises by the street spoke out to me from his side of the wrought iron security fence. He asked if I had a cigarette he could have. Since I don't smoke, I apologized and said no, but, told him to hang on a minute and I went across the street to the Nic grocery store, bought a pack and went back and gave it to him. He lit one up and then looked appreciatively at me and said in quite good English, "I love America and I love Romania now".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 11/20/2019 9:38:20 AM (No. 240138)
Obviously, yes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Arby 11/20/2019 9:47:21 AM (No. 240154)
They want to be able to rule the country. Then they will love it. They never seem to understand that the real leftist power brokers see them as useful idiots. In a truly communist country they could aspire to clean the bottom of the shoes of the real 'rulers'. They want to become a part of a 'movement' that will provide them a life and an identity and they want to signal their virtue (in the absence of palpable accomplishments). If they weren't so doggoned annoying we could simply pity them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Delilah 11/20/2019 9:48:28 AM (No. 240155)
I've been aware of this since my grandson came out of college hating this country. Never gave a good reason, just that he wanted to leave it as soon as possible. I encouraged him by volunteering to find out how to get a passport for his baby, but he ignored my hint and said he'd wait for retirement, which is at least 25 years off.
He's a hard worker and is now a Walmart manager making big bucks so I will never understand him, especially since he is insulting both his grandfathers who fought in WWII or Korean war. I doubt he even thinks of this since life is all about himself.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/20/2019 10:03:28 AM (No. 240182)
You can never make a leftist "happy," it's not in their DNA. They are anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-Israel, anti-authority, anti-military, anti-law enforcement, anti-Constitution, anti-morality, anti-traditional values, anti-American culture, anti-business, anti-free market. So what DO they stand for? Hedonistic Anarchy
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/20/2019 10:16:43 AM (No. 240198)
Does the Pope like little altar boys?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
harleynyc 11/20/2019 10:24:30 AM (No. 240213)
Leftists, liberals, commies, antifa...all the same crap.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NotaBene 11/20/2019 10:51:57 AM (No. 240259)
Yes, Marxists hate America. President Trump has shown how capitalism make US wealthy again. What I learned on TV just now is that Senator McCarthy was right in that the Department of State was infiltrated by Communists, 70 years and counting. We must defend Trump with all we have because if our enemies within take him out they will come after our entire civilization.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
EQKimball 11/20/2019 11:00:51 AM (No. 240266)
I greatly admire Dennis Prager. In fact he is my favorite commentator. But because I know and love the leftists in my own family I know what they and we all love about America. Here is a partial list: Its rich cultural traditions, not the least of which is Thanksgiving; its sports teams of every type; barbecue; our national parks and monuments; our freedom to move about and live where we want; the ability to select a school for their children; the freedom to vote; the freedom to organize associations; small businesses of every description; entrepreneurship; the enormous selections of goods and services; the opportunity to run for office, and to a more tortured degree, freedom of speech and religion.
The list is much longer, but it does explain a lot about our fellow Americans on the left, who have been wholly or partially seduced or brainwashed by the siren song of socialism. They love their country, but imagine a better place of material equality without the its historic faults and excesses. Wish your left friends a Happy Thanksgiving. There is much on both sides to be thankful for.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/20/2019 11:57:52 AM (No. 240334)
Amen about our Flag waving in the breeze of Freedom!
Even that nappy-headed Obama ''constitutional scholar from Harvard'' reminded the current surfeit of leftists that Americans Do Not want to have America transformed (especially not by some ragtag bunch of commie liberals). He suddenly got smarter than he looks. Probably only a temporary lapse.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 11/20/2019 2:20:44 PM (No. 240469)
Come on!
We need a little street lingo here.
The haters all have one thing in common
They’re all F’d up in the head
They prove it when they begin to babble
We’ve all known this for years
My wife thinks crazy ass leftoids came here as aliens from a devil planet
I tend to agree with her
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kafka2 11/20/2019 5:30:15 PM (No. 240659)
Does the Left Hate America? YES, because the citizens do not unquestioningly accept every stupid thing they want to ram down our throats.
After all we are just a bunch of stupid, smelly deplorables in their eyes.
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Ever notice the haters never leave this country ? Nobody else would allow them to live free and constantly complain.
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