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Tactical Progressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 12:21 PM
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7. So we can feel pride in America's good
Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 12:22 PM by Tactical Progressive
but need not feel shame in its bad?

We can take credit for America's successes
but deny responsibility for its failures?

Sounds like centrist American thinking to me. Even if it is immoral, unethical and completely hypocritical, it's probably good for getting elected. Works for Republicans.
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  - Guilt, like fear, is just another tool to control the masses.  porphyrian   Feb-24-05 11:42 AM   #1 
  - Collective guilt will only work if you can also have collective pride.  GodlessBiker   Feb-24-05 11:42 AM   #2 
  - I was reading someone's description of Iraq  bloom   Feb-24-05 11:50 AM   #3 
  - I do feel a deep sense of shame about what has been done "in our names"  Justitia   Feb-24-05 11:53 AM   #4 
  - yes shame is a good word  G_j   Feb-24-05 12:46 PM   #9 
  - How do you  forgethell   Feb-24-05 12:09 PM   #5 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-24-05 12:20 PM   #6 
  - So we can feel pride in America's good  Tactical Progressive   Feb-24-05 12:21 PM   #7 
  - You're mixing several different things  gratuitous   Feb-24-05 12:40 PM   #8 
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     - Not totally and solely  gratuitous   Feb-24-05 01:11 PM   #12 
  - What about collective benefit or collective harm?  freestyle   Feb-24-05 01:06 PM   #11 
  - but it is our tax dollars at work,done in our name,  Monkie   Feb-24-05 01:37 PM   #13 
  - I've got news for you. When Soviet troops are sitting in downtown Berlin  DivinBreuvage   Feb-26-05 12:21 AM   #14 
 

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