Reply #16: My email to Brooks

[dkamin]

Are you insane? Ann Coulter wrote a book called Treason, accusing liberals of giving aid and comfort to the enemy for the last 50 years, and Pat Robertson, in the days following 9/11 said that NYC deserved 9/11 because of its liberalism and only now do you find it problematic that there is "hatred"?

You people are despicable, and the true America-haters. No liberal I know has ever accused someone who disagreed with them of being a traitor, or hating America, or supporting terrorism, whereas a surprisingly high number of conservatives believe this garbage.

It's pretty clear to me that if you believe that somewhere between 40-50% of the American population is worthy of being hated, that there's no substantive difference between that and hating America itself.

This "problem" of hatred starts and ends with your side of the aisle, sir. It started with the right-wing crap being stated about Clinton every day, which, incidentally, almost certainly hampered Clinton's very real obsession with combatting terrorism. It goes on today, as conservatives accuse every liberal criticism of Republican policy, whether of invading Iraq or of tax cuts, as being unpatriotic, and accusing liberals of allowing 9/11 to happen. This country is much much worse today because of the conservative elite, which is doing its best to sink this country into third-world pariah status.