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Real Americans

This clip from The Daily Show highlights one of the most effective and, I think, insidious tactics conservatives in America use to stifle discourse, which is the notion that anyone who thinks that America is imperfect hates our country. In their mind, wanting to improve America equals loathing our nation and is unpatriotic.

But I guess that’s what conservativism has been reduced to in this country, the notion that life was better in the past and that change is scary and unnecessary.

This entry was posted on October 21, 2008 at 4:18 pm and is filed under Politics . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Real Americans”

  1. scootdawg Says:
    October 22, 2008 at 6:53 am

    Matt,

    This country IS great but to a point I agree with you. Its the Jingoism and blind patriotism that is bothersome. However, don't think that this type of diatribe is contained to the republicans ( I refuse to call them conservative because they're not). The Democrats love to make every issue a “crisis” and tell you that it can only be solved by government.

    The dishonest arguments are on both sides of the aisle…

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