Why do you all hate America?

[democrat in Tallahassee]

Just wondering. This is practice for when some jerk asks you this question. For example you might answer<
"I don't hate America, just the fascists who run it."

(edited cause I can't spell)

[Goldmund]

1. Because I like Osama, of course --

-- why else? :eyes:

[nine30]

6. And why not ?

New York has no better friend than Osama of course !

[Goldmund]

11. And he can cook some mean pork chops!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

2. "Why are you intent on destroying it?" n/t

[The Straight Story]

3. my answer:

I love America, I just want to get rid of the terrorists who are taking it over and destroying. Same mission you all have, I just have seen that it is not people crashing airplanes that is the greatest threat. It is the facists in power.

[Tux]

4. Hate America?

If liberals hate America, why are they wanting freedom and democracy while conservatives want a theocracy?

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. I Would Pull a Clinton

and ask them to define "hate". The knee-jerk, fuddy duddy old coots from the rightwing can't stand that. And it'll put a smile to my face driving them nuts.

[Solly Mack]

7. "Because people like you make it easy to hate America"

or any other smartass remark you can think of...

I don't take that question seriously when asked. :)

[Mr_Spock]

37. Exactly! "Because people like YOU live here!"

Stupid RW zombies should be forced to live with the people they destroy.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. "I don't hate anyone or anything...

I grieve for the shredding of the U.S. Constitution upon which America is founded."

[PowerToThePeople]

9. "Because you live here." n/t

[cdb]

13. I hate the America YOU voted for!

I hate the America that supports the war. I hate the America that thinks torture is a game. I hate the America that forces it's Dark Ages religion on me. That's the America I hate.

[jedr]

10. it's my country;

and it's my job to make sure it runs right! Do you hate your kids just because you question them?...Given the opportunity ; these people will screw you.

[LightningFlash]

12. I don't.

I hate what America has been turned into to represent. That's how simple it is, and it doesn't go any other way.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

14. If the Bush administration = America..

..then what possible reason would there be for someone to NOT hate America?

Seriously.

If someone was fond of torture, abuse, theocracy, big government, deficits, and war, then there are probably countries in which such things are prevalent WITHOUT interference from an opposition party. Bush-loving "patriots" love all those things; they should go to a nation where unpatriotic Democrats won't make things difficult.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. My answer

I hate Nazi's but love my country.

[Ksec]

16. merikas been good ta me

got me a job et macdonals and I make me 4 buks and hower.

[xchrom]

17. just to piss you off.

mission accomplished.:patriot:

[Goldmund]

19. LOL exactly

I can't believe anyone would actually attempt to answer that absurdity of a question.

[proud patriot]

18. I asked a bush voter this at a stop light the other day

it was quite fun :evilgrin:

I ask them that question before they ask me .

[globalvillage]

23. I was wearing my "*-not my president" t-shirt

and some ignorant repug gave me a "look".

When I asked him what he had against freedom and the Constitution, he just shrugged.

On second thought, maybe he wasn't looking at the shirt. :blush:

[noiretextatique]

20. i don't hate the land mass, not even the people who occupy it

i hate the over-hyped IDEA of america because of the way its being used by the neocons to push their fascist agenda. and i hate the way *some* americans aer buying into it.

[eissa]

21. Bush is not America

you need differentiate between the two. I love this country too much to see a brain-dead thug run it into the ground, that's why I speak out.

Don't know if it would work given the mental capacities of those who question our patriotism, but it's the best response I have.

[Shoeempress]

22. I love America, I just hate you

[Bryn]

24. America Not a Country...America is CORPORATION

That's what a guy says on CSI: Miami last night

He adds: in America wars are created for profits

As far as I am concerned, I don't have a country! Not anymore! Us "the People" are Without Country!

:cry:

[nine30]

25. Conservatives don't love America..They only HATE liberals

They - just- hate - liberals. Period. Their hatred is pure, unadultrated and as vicious as you can imagine. They live to HATE liberals day in and day out. Listen to talk radio ..what do they talk abou ?.do they ever talk about anything constructive ?.No. They only talk about hate. Everything always comes down to venomenous hatred. Conservatives are incapable of love, except maybe for the self.

Liberals hate America ? Umm lets see. Look at what they are doing to *save* it . They are trying to save the earth from pollutants like mercury, arsenic,.. trying to save its air from CO2, sulfur and nitric oxides, its water from more industrial pollutants..they are trying to preserve its forests so people (including conservatives) can breathe clean air, its animals from extinction..you name it. What are conservatives trying to do ? They are trying to destroy everything the liberals are trying to save. For them its *ALWAYS* about the self..its about the "I".

How the *I* can get rich..how the *I* can get ahead..how the *I* can enjoy more...at any cost..screw everything/everybody else, including the land they profess to love. Its not the country they love, its THEMSELVES.

Don't ever fall for that crap. Always judge by their actions, not their words.

Remember this :

1. Liberals CONSERVE. Conservatives DESTROY.
2. Liberals GIVE, Conservatives STEAL
3. Liberals SAVE, Conservatives KILL.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

26. Love America, Hate 'Murka

Hate what some would have us become.

[genieroze]

27. I love America, I hate Amerika and the psycho fascists who think

they own everyone and everything.

[gort]

28. If I hate America then why did you kill the Kennedys?

Pleased to meet you, I've guessed your name (whoo-whoo!)

That should shut them up.

[newyawker99]

32. Hi gort!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[spindoctor]

29. I hate myself for my freedom

This is cool. Will we have training camps next? ;)

[mvd]

30. Simple

I hate Bush's America, which is America turned upside-down. Thus my avatar choice. :-)

[0rganism]

31. I hate us for our freedoms

* Our freedom to bomb and invade other countries indiscriminately in the name of subsidized oil production, even if our leaders have to lie to us to justify such actions
* Our freedom to screw the working poor while giving gigantic tax cuts to corporate elites
* Our freedom to conceal the software behind publicly-owned voting machines because it's "proprietary"
* Our freedom to mask the identities of Dick Cheney's energy task force in the name of privacy while openly gutting the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 14th ammendments with a "Patriot" act.
* Our freedom to impeach a president for a blowjob while idolizing a president for abject incompetence and outright corruption
* Our freedom to bitch endlessly about taxes and government waste while merrily running up record budget defecits
* Our freedom to endlessly fuck the global environment because regulating polluters is a nuisance
* Our freedom to force millions of disabled people to live in agony because manipulating stem cells in a petrie dish violates some dipshit's arbitrary idea of a "culture of life"
* Our freedom to call dumping increased amounts of toxic shit into the air a "clean skies initiative", or opening millions of acres of roadless national forests to clearcutting a "healthy forests initiative" or "forests with future"

Fuck it. You get the idea.

[edhopper]

33. To paraphrase Mr. T in Rocky 3...

I don't hate America, but I pity the fools!

[markus]

34. Why do *you* hate us for our freedoms?

Want to live in a theocracy? Try Saudi Arabia. Or Iran. Just don't try to smuggle in your bible.

[DelawareValleyDem]

35. "Why do you ask such stupid questions?"

That usually works for me

[GOPBasher]

36. Republicans hate America for our freedoms, such as freedom of religion.

NT

[leesa]

38. They are the ones trying to change America, so clearly they are

the ones who hate America. They are the ones who are anti-constitutional.

[Bluerthanblue]

39. it is because i love this country that i hate the direction it is going-

and my love doesn't stop at the 'boundry lines' humans have etched on the globe-

Hate is not the absence of love- it's a part of love- you can't hate something you don't 'care' a thing about-

denial, silence, neglect, enabling and ambivilance would be the signs that someone had ceased truly loving- i hate it when my kids whine and nag- but i love them enough to see that as a temporary condition, and a sometimes desperate plea for attention.

Loving doesn't mean standing by while someone is destroying themself- being willing to risk thier wrath, and putting yourself between them and the road to ruin is loving- real loving.-

"Peace takes courage too."