If you think acknowledging America’s awful history of slavery, genocide, and discrimination necessitates that you don’t love America, then guess what? You don’t love America! Because those things did, in fact, actually happen. So to call someone out for discussing them is less a sign that they don’t love America than a sign that you only love some vague, nonexistent fantasy version of America, and find the real thing detestable.
Say what you want about Millennials but at least almost none of us were among those who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000.
What’s up Gen X progressives?
If you really want to criticize Obama for lying, take him to task for saying John Boehner had always been courteous and had a great love for the House.
I certainly agree that Republicans shouldn’t listen to the Pope’s thoughts on climate change. They should be listening to scientists…
In rejecting the establishment, the Republican party may have settled on three front-runners: Donald Trump, who talks a lot but says very little; Carly Fiorina, who says a lot, but most of it is made up; and Ben Carson, who doesn’t talk very much at all.
“Don’t worry,” says Donald Trump. “When I said we’d look into ways to ‘get rid of them,’ I didn’t mean Muslims! I just meant the hypothetical Muslim training camps believed in by the obvious racist whose insane opinions I treated as valid.”
Rick Santorum fully understands that ISIS is an apocalyptic death cult because he’s part of one.
