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This is the result of the Republican party, starting at least with the Bush neocons, weaponizing patriotism to be a way to slander their critics, and to publicly demonstrate their allegiance to the conservative movement.
After a couple decades now of conservative pundits and politicians responding to criticism by implying their opponents don't love America as much as they do, or even trying to stifle conversation by demanding everyone profess their love of America on the spot, I think everyone else is pretty sick and tired of the flags and pins and stars-and-stripes punisher tee shirts.
“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.”
-Al Franken
Yes, I think of his discussion about REAL patriotism all the time. I've had that ingrained in my since I was a child by my hippie parents. I freaking love this place. But it doesn't come without a LOT of qualifiers.
And Taco and the qons are actively ruining it.
Talked to a guy a couple months ago about Trump being re-elected and he literally told me that "at least we can now fly American flags again" now that Biden was out.
I just stared at him like... what the fuck are you even talking about dude??
Not a citizen, by the way. Wouldn't surprise me if he was already deported.
Sounds like he was one of the sharpest bulbs, so to speak.
I am still reeling at talking to someone that not only said we can now say "Merry Xmas" again, thanks to Taco (WTAF?!!!), and said it with not even a whiff of irony. While I was still laughing, he said he hopes that Taco will be able to fix the terrible Biden economy.
This guy is not suffering in the slightest. His wife pays for most everything, and he has steady work. Fixed mortgage. Maybe there was a slight uptick here in inflation, even if it was lower than so many other countries. This guy didn't feel it. But he was standing there and telling me right while Taco was wiping about 20% out of my savings due to cratering the market and thus everyone's 401K, that Taco was going to "fix" this so-called terrible economy of Biden's.
Straight the fuck outta 1984. And I know people say "the financial markets are not the economy", but they are HIGHLY correlated, so that dog won't hunt. If the market crashes, people don't care about the S&P are still going to be affected.
From where the rest of us are standing, "everyone else" is WAY too comfortable with it. Inaction = acquiescence.
theres an old saying in the corporate world... 'whatever you allow to persist becomes policy'
unfortunately, 40% of america are brainwashed to vote against their own best interests with another 30% not voting at all trapping the rest of us in their self-created hellscape.
It's older than that. Nixon started it and Regan kicked is down the mountain.
We’ve been living in it. It’s happening.