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On loving / hating America. (lemmy.starlightkel.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz to c/usa@midwest.social

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I've been thinking about this amped up conservative rhetoric that liberals and leftists hate America. We all know that's BS. Right? Except it's not, and we should respond to it for what it is.

"I love an America I grew up in. I love an America I believe in, that I lived most of my life in. Now, the idea of America that you're fighting and "winning" for is killing that America I live in, that I love. So you're right. I hate what you imagine America to be... because it is trying to murder the America that I love. And I don't use the word "murder" lightly, and I apply it to you. And if that means to you that I hate America... then you're right! The America you believe in isn't lovable."

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love America.
I can vote
It's not over until we stop fighting.
defeatist attitude

wonder-who-thats-for

If you love America, and you think voting will be able to "fix" it, you have always already been defeated. That's what we are trying to tell you. Your idealism of "America" is not real. And you being proud of that ideal in spite of all the very real death, exploitation, destruction in service of capitalism that "America" exists to maintain is you defeating yourself publicly.