Isaac Brock
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Originally posted by Kathianne
Nice response Eric, I was thinking of something along the same lines. I've been hearing libs say that their patriotism is being questioned, and have wondered, 'Where?' RW is doing just that.
Personally it's not patriotism I question, sometimes just common sense.
As a Canadian I don't think it's necessarily appropriate to comment on this, but I will try if you will allow me to indulge. Actually I'll take this a bit further and provide a point on each side.
For liberals, if think the most common calling of unpatriotism in the USA is either with the homeland security or the war in iraq. For brevity's sake I'll just take about the opposition to the war in Iraq. I think it's fair to say and correct me if i'm wrong, but the common mentality is that you're against the war on terrorism if you were against the Iraq war. Although some link have been suggested, I don't think there has been a smoking gun and I think in many cases. The whole opposition has meant that liberals have often been branded as un-american, where liberals, I think believe, rightly or wrongly depending on your point of view, that they are doing America a service in their stance.
However this isn't liberal only phenomena, during the Clinton years, conservatives who were against some of the social reforms such as Medicare (isn't that what it is referred to in the states) or tax relieft for the poor at the expense of the rich, where consider to be anti-poor and heartless. Conservatives view was that economic trickle down would be a better benefit to the poor or rather that handouts would cause greater social plague. Liberals came down just as hard then, and rightly or wrongly intellectual conservatives did what they thought were right.
I strongly believe partisanship is undermining America, but have no other solution other than to search for consensus or a third way, neither of which I can see as a viable solution for the forseeable future. However what is transparent is that there is an endemic problem in the way opposition is viewed.