Reply #59: No, I'm just shedding light on why some c's think l's "hate" America

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I'm not trying to say that YOU blame America first.

I'm saying that we have too many on our side who run off at the mouth, when it comes to America's problems, and that when your average conservative's window on "liberalism" consists of the Michael Moores and Ward Churchills out there, is it any wonder they think "liberals hate America"?

This is not an accusation we liberals can afford to ignore or brush off as simple conservative ignorance. Yes, it would be nice of your average conservative read more widely and did a little policy wonking beyond Free Republic. But even I cringe when I read or hear some self-appointed spokesperson for liberalism get up and denounce our country. "Bowling for Columbine" made me positively ill, because it so thoroughly cherry picked the gun debate, and American history, as to be patently "America hating" in its tone and message.

I know many will disagree, but again, as someone who self-identifies liberal and has lived a pretty "liberal" life (interracial marriage, consistent Democratic voter, lives in a liberal state, uses alternative commuting, yadda yadda) I can see why conservatives are angry or upset at "liberals who hate America", because if you ask me, I think some liberals genuinely *DO* hate America, and I wish they would find a different hobby.