As I watched “Hardball with Chris Matthews” on MSNBC I was confronted with the most obnoxious little turd I have ever listened to. She spent her time with the usual negativity of the GOP but then she went off into a direction at seen since the HUAC days. She basically called all “Leftist” and liberals un-American or as she put it “anti-American”. When Matthews questioned her about her statements she so far as to say that the media should do an investigative piece on the US Congress and members with “anti-American” leanings.
Geez, I had to be talked down by some friends; I was ready to post another one of my posts that I had to apologize for at the beginning.
First, I am a liberal and have fought for my country in several wars, even some that few people knew were wars. To accuse me of “anti-American” activities just pisses me off. I have spent a lifetime working to enpower the people and her statements is just the growing sentiment brought on by the, in my opinion, “anti-American” activity of partisanship, which does NOTHING for the country or the people.
This loathing seems to be a growing sentiment within the GOP, that somehow anyone who does not think like them is “Un-American”. SHIT! This type of bullsh*t has not been around since the days of tail-gunner Joe McCarthy. This type of hatred was not acceptable then and it is even more so now.
The pin head making these statements was Congresswoman Michele Bachman (R-MN). THe GOP is losing it and they need to STOP spreading the crap and the hate. The party needs to move into the present and stop living in the past….or they will become just another worthless pack of morons with no direction; all they will have is the hate that will eventually consume them……..that may not be all bad.
It frustrates me as well when progressive-minded people are labeled unpatriotic, un-American… I agree with you completely. It is that we want to empower the American people that MAKES us so patriotic, perhaps, in some ways, more patriotic than the Right wing could ever be. The Right continues to empower and fund their corporate cronies, their religious institutions, their own bank accounts — that is all un-American — to concentrate wealth and power in these limited entities. Progressives want collective power, and want to help the little guy. How could that be unpatriotic? If we care so much or at all about the American *people* (and all humanity)? It disgusts me to be accused of being unpatriotic by such hypocritical fear-mongering liars as the ultra-religious Right.
Damn! I could not have said it better! Good comment!
Oh, thank you! Actually, I thought your post was, by far, more on-point than anything I could’ve written! But, thank you! 🙂
I have my moments with enough caffeine….lol