Considering who the current face of the country is and how we are acting on the world stage, it’s the least they can do.

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dcrazy an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America. Because as long as there is anything to criticize about America (which there always will be), some people simply cannot make a single truly positive statement about America, or even things that happened in or came from America.

Slate is even worse than The Atlantic in this regard.

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cma an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Finally the explanation for why the Trump campaign slogan "Keep America Great" resonated so well against that kind of opposition backdrop.

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mathgeek an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America.

This is a form of victim blaming. The right side of American politics gets away with it not because the left complains, but because the right doesn’t get punished at the polls for doing it.

	▲	dcrazy 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They don’t get punished at the polls because people accept, or are at least willing to entertain the implication, that the left wing dislikes America. And what sense does it make to vote for an unpatriotic politician? Would you want to work for a CEO who publicly disdains the company? (Gil Amelio’s infamous quote about steering the sinking Apple ship comes to mind.) As long as the Democratic base insists on caveating every American achievement with the Omnicause, it will keep playing into the Gingrichian rhetoric.

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throw-the-towel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How is this kind of ritual flagellation supposed to mitigate Trump though?

	▲	GMoromisato an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ironically, it's this ritual self-flagellation that helped elect Trump. Normies lost faith in the media partly because they were seen as not really loving America. And if you don't trust the media, then it's a lot easier to believe Trump's lies.