Sickening

This thread is as blindly partisan as the actions it decries.

What makes America great is the lunatic fringe.

I think the real point here is that the Dems tend to embrace their fringe wackos, even when they say, "F**& America." That is what causes people to assume that the fringe speaks for the whole party, whether it is true or not.

Someone needs to embrace us.

After all it is the "fringe wackos" who have made America great, not the "respectable mainstream" who continues to be sickened by the expression of free speech.

The "fringe wackos" have consistently sickened America by expressing -- often with great anger -- their opposition to slavery, racism and war.

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Don't get me wrong - having dissenting opinions and voices IS America - I agree with you on that. Where I draw the line is with the "F*&! America" crowd, such as many of the folks in the pictures that started this thread. The dissenters of the past tended to come from a perspective of wanting to improve this country that they loved, not wanting to destroy this country that they hated. The folks running around saying this country is a waste and that they want to leave - they are the problem. The one expressing their opinions about where we are and trying to effect change - bravo! I may not agree with you, but you have every right to do it.

Idaho wrote:

Don't get me wrong - having dissenting opinions and voices IS America - I agree with you on that. Where I draw the line is with the "F*&! America" crowd, such as many of the folks in the pictures that started this thread. The dissenters of the past tended to come from a perspective of wanting to improve this country that they loved, not wanting to destroy this country that they hated. The folks running around saying this country is a waste and that they want to leave - they are the problem. The one expressing their opinions about where we are and trying to effect change - bravo! I may not agree with you, but you have every right to do it.

Good point. And I want to add that this Thursday remember the people that fought to give these misguided souls the right to protest anything in the USA.

Don't get me wrong - having dissenting opinions and voices IS America - I agree with you on that. Where I draw the line is with the "F*&! America" crowd, such as many of the folks in the pictures that started this thread. The dissenters of the past tended to come from a perspective of wanting to improve this country that they loved, not wanting to destroy this country that they hated. The folks running around saying this country is a waste and that they want to leave - they are the problem. The one expressing their opinions about where we are and trying to effect change - bravo! I may not agree with you, but you have every right to do it.

Factually, the sign read "F**& Middle America.

Many of us can sympathize with this sentiment.

I am here, I love my country, and I am not leaving. I am still mighty upset with "middle America" on several counts.

Someone needs to embrace us.

After all it is the "fringe wackos" who have made America great, not the "respectable mainstream" who continues to be sickened by the expression of free speech.

The "fringe wackos" have consistently sickened America by expressing -- often with great anger -- their opposition to slavery, racism and war.

But the wackos have often been successful. Women have the vote. Interracial marriages are legal. Schools are segregated and wars are questioned. And this happened in spite of the fact that conservatives were quite sickened by the idea of sharing a drinking fountain with a "negro", having women steal the jobs of men, or having to work with Jews.

Every society, from Imperial Rome, to the Monarchies of old Europe to Stalin of the Soviets to Saddam in Iraq had their loyal citizens, who pledged allegiance to their country and fealty to their leaders.

What makes America great is the lunatic fringe. Since the time lunatic wackos started the revolution and gained American independence, those who question societies beliefs and challenge authority have had a special place on our country and our politics. Often we have broken laws, for example the Underground railroad to free the slaves, and often we have been justifiably angry.

I am sorry if it sickens you, but thats freedom and democracy. If you love America, you should be glad that we are around.

You are correct, E, that these 'progressives' have every right to protest as they do.

But let's examine what would happen if the tables were turned. Let's say the ?'progressives' are the one's holding power, getting to decide who can protest and what they can say.

What would happen then? My guess is that the 'progressives' would not allow any kind of discourse or disagreement with any of their beliefs. One only has to witness the lack of diversity of opinion on most college campuses to see that these people are nothing but fascists. They have no trace of possessing an open mind, or allowing any sort of political thought that differs from their own.

They truly are the Nazis of the 21 century.

One last observation, E. Try to use a group from the last couple of decades to make your point of similarity with the thugs pictured. Something within 30 years or so? I think you may be stretching the point a bit when comparing these ?'progressives' with the heroes of the civil rights movement from 40 years ago or the women's suffrage movement a century ago….

You are correct, E, that these 'progressives' have every right to protest as they do.

But let's examine what would happen if the tables were turned. Let's say the ?'progressives' are the one's holding power, getting to decide who can protest and what they can say.

What would happen then? My guess is that the 'progressives' would not allow any kind of discourse or disagreement with any of their beliefs. One only has to witness the lack of diversity of opinion on most college campuses to see that these people are nothing but fascists. They have no trace of possessing an open mind, or allowing any sort of political thought that differs from their own.

They truly are the Nazis of the 21 century.

Craven de Kere wrote:

Larry434 wrote:

The pics define the Dem party that the electorate delivered a crushing defeat to last week.

This is as absurd as the idiots in the pictures.

Takes a special kind of blind partisanship to write off whole sides on account of their extremists.

This is the equivalent of the left's denigration of the right on the basis of the distasteful folk who celebrate when gays die of AIDS and hold up signs saying "God hates fags".

If you want a cheap pot shot you might want to ensure that it is not one that reflects on your own ability to reason more than the broad group you attempt to denigrate.

A politician and a political party are defined by their constituents, simple as that.

I think the real point here is that the Dems tend to embrace their fringe wackos, even when they say, "F**& America." That is what causes people to assume that the fringe speaks for the whole party, whether it is true or not.