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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 06:07 AM
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"Liberals Hate America"
Straight from the frame shop (Lakoff):
"Aw you liberals just hate America."

No. We love democracy and we want to return it to America.
You want a presidential dictator.
We love liberty and we want to return it to America.
You want to tap our phones.
We love equality and we want to return it to America.
You think some people are better than others.
We love honesty and we want to return it to America.
You love lobbyists and corruption.
We love fairness and we want to return it to America.
You want to oppress the powerless.
We love openness and we want to return it to America.
You love secrecy and hiding the facts.
We love nature's glory and we want to return it to America.
You love the profit that comes from destroying nature.
We love community and we want to return it to America.
You want everyone to fend for himself.
We love public education and we want to return it to America.
You want to destroy public education.
We love civilian control of the military and we want to return it to America.
You want to militarize America.
And on and on...

George Lakoff
The Rockridge Institute



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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 06:13 AM
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1. And then there's my version...
Conservatives want liberals dead...

we just want them to go away.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:38 AM
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2. Bet you'd find more dual-citizenship people in the Repukes/Conservatives
(for tax purposes) than you would Dems/Liberals ...
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:46 AM
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3. Damn straight
See, I grew up in a country that was opposed to imperial wars, torture, war crimes, secret police and star chamber court proceedings. The country I grew up in favored civil rights so much that they were extended without question to even the lowest of the low, because the presumption was that rights reserved only for the few were not rights at all, but privileges.

I look at America under George W. Bush and the misrule of the Republican majority in Congress, and I don't recognize the country I grew up in anymore, even though my address hasn't changed. I hate what manufactured fear has turned our citizenry into, and I much prefer the country I grew up in.

The real question is, why do the Republicans love what they've done to America?
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