This bit was originally linked over in news, the woman who “wants her country back” - a “birther.”
Birthers are pretty much in the same category as “truthers” - those who think the government had something/everything to do with 9/11. Except “truthers” tended maybe more to the left, the “movement” picking up steam during the Bush presidency; now the “birthers” are largely conservative - in that we’re talking about Obama’s birth certificate.
I love the “spontaneous” Pledge of Allegiance, as well. WE’RE MORE AMERICAN THAN YOU!!!
This is the OUTRAGE!!! we’re always talking about in the vids. This is in the very same sentiment we saw at the McCain-Palin rallies - parodied by SNL as “crazy McCain lady.”
This is the “base.”
These are the Rush listeners.
These are the people who think their country was “stolen” from them - via a democratic election.
This is the seething, resentful anger that takes it as a matter of faith that liberals and liberalism are the cause of the country’s pain and suffering - and longs, just longs, to lash out at it. And, on occasion, has.
What they seek is a restoration - apparently, to the Bush years. The Bush years represent the pinnacle of their acheivement, in that Republicans ran the show, their “side” was in power. Yet they were still OUTRAGED!!!, even then. And all their woes were still blamed on the “liberals.”
There is no appeasing this howling, uninformed yet convinced it is completely informed mindset. If theirs was a bipartisan OUTRAGE!!! focused more on economic issues rather than cultural ones, it would have a broader base; but 20 years of Rush has taught these disaffected white folks to Hate Teh Liberal, and now, the seething and snarling is easily pilloried as crazy. Because it is.
And thus, whatever germ of a legitimate complaint may lie at the core of these folks argument gets crushed and swept aside.
The issue isn’t that Obama was supposedly born in Kenya. It’s that people right here in America have gamed the system and you ain’t in on the game, and you know what? Republicans and conservatives were every bit as complicit in that as the liberals you love to hate. You’ve been had. And your refusal or inability to understand or acknowledge it means you can never effectively challenge it - no matter how loudly you recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
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