>Why do lefties have so much praising a country that we had so much of a role
>in creating? The multi-racial multiculturalism of this country, which the
>Right hates, is based on centures of struggle against slavery, racism, and
>nativism, a battle that progressives actually largely won, as shown by the
>mass immigration numbers since 1965 and in our culture anytime you look at
>the music charts.
>
>Sure damn the policies we hate, but I always liked Frederick Douglas's
>approach to American instutions, praise the ideals as the norm and damn the
>deviations as unAmerican. It's the Bennetts of the world who are the
>betrayers of the American traditio of dissent ad openness. He can claim the
>traiditon of xenophobia and apologetics for criminal behavior, but telling
>the government to go to hell when its wrong is the America of Washington,
>Jefferson, Douglas, Debs and Martin Luther King. And its the America I'll
>praise any day of the week.
Too bad it too often exists on paper and in the mind rather than in the flesh. Did "we" have a role in creating slavery, McCarthyism, or imperial war? The good things you cite rose in opposition to the bad things you slight.
Doug