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In reply to the discussion: We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't. [View all]bupkus
(1,981 posts)1. K&R +1
There is no common ground with these people because they refuse to consider any ground common ground.
They just want THEIR country back. But it isn't their country. It's OUR country.
Enough is enough. No more dealing with traitors. No more negotiating with the enemy.
We want OUR country back. Our country that was ruled by intellect not by superstition. Where government offered solutions to society's problems that only government could handle. Where education was valued for learning, not an opportunity for indoctrination. Where society moved ahead, not back to the Dark Ages.
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We are at war. You can pretend we can be one country again, but we can't. [View all]
Taverner
Jun 2012
OP
However, since the Glenn Beckkks and Rushes out there have stirred them up, they vote now
Taverner
Jun 2012
#13
We might define hatred as self-defense. Better writers than I can define the difference in the two..
freshwest
Jun 2012
#12
Nadin, hate to burst your bubble about "Holocaust survivors and the Germans
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#91
Since most of the organized mass killing was going on in Poland and not in
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#122
We are as exceptional as Rome, Spain, Britannia, France, the Netherlands
nadinbrzezinski
Jul 2012
#173
I hope you will work some of your thoughts here into an original post. I'd love
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#95
There are those who are saying we will always lose as long as it is okay with us to allow
patrice
Jun 2012
#53
I am very sorry to hear of this - makes the 'civil war' alluded to in the OP and
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#99
I'm very sorry to hear about this familial civil war. When the price of maintaining
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#106
ironically, they are all being brainwashed by the corporate media they call 'liberal'
Ghost of Huey Long
Jun 2012
#88
The 6 Walton heirs between them control as much wealth as the bottom 30 million Americans. Stop
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#86
This is what the powers that be want. You are starting a war w/o an end like
Dustlawyer
Jun 2012
#97
So if the working class does not agree with you, it's war on their behalf anyways?
randome
Jun 2012
#112
+1. I bet you didn't start out by telling him he was ignorant & brainwashed & didn't know his own
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#150
This is the classic mistake of the American liberal . . . it's 'American exceptionalism' in reverse
RZM
Jun 2012
#120
Oh I'm sorry. Every time we extend our hands, they get chewed on mercilessly.
Taverner
Jun 2012
#136