Shocker! July 4th Anti-Americanism on the Left

I thought I was through for the night, but I had to share with my readers a couple of great posts on far left-wing anti-Americanism.

Here's this, from Sister Toldjah's entry, "An America-Hating far Leftie Weighs in on Independence Day:

Further proof that the self-loathing that comprises the far left doesn’t take breaks, even for a holiday. The Philly Inquirer’s Chris Satullo scribbles:

Put the fireworks in storage.

Cancel the parade.

Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time.

This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement.

For we have sinned.

We have failed to pay attention. We’ve settled for lame excuses. We’ve spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Philadelphia 232 years ago.

The America those men founded should never torture a prisoner.

The America they founded should never imprison people for years without charge or hearing.

The America they founded should never ship prisoners to foreign lands, knowing their new jailers might torture them.

Such abuses once were committed by the arrogant crowns of Europe, spawning rebellion.

Today, our nation does such things in the name of our safety. Petrified, unwilling to take the risks that love of liberty demands, we close our eyes.

We have done such things, on orders from the Oval Office. We have done them, without general outrage or shame.

Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. CIA secret prisons. “Rendition” of prisoners to foreign torture chambers ...

We have betrayed the July 4 creed. We trample the vows we make, hand to heart...

Things like this just don’t compute with me. Even when I was a leftie, I was never ashamed to fly my flag on any day, especially on days like Independence Day, nor was I hestitant to say how much I loved this country, even during the times when I felt it was veering off course. That continued even through the Clinton years after I saw the light and became a conservative. There were many, many things Bill Clinton did during his tenure that made me ashamed of him, but I sure as hell was never ashamed of my country.

Also, from American Sentinel, "Why Progressives Aren’t Patriotic":

In fact, this comes from the great source, itself, The Progressive:

“It’s July 4th again, a day of near-compulsory flag-waving and nation-worshipping. Count me out. Spare me the puerile parades. Don’t play that martial music, white boy. And don’t befoul nature’s sky with your F-16s. You see, I don’t believe in patriotism.”

I was going to comment on this, but this article is one of those rare pieces that speaks for itself–yet says the opposite of what the author intends. Matthew Rothschild manages to fit so much prototypical liberal garbage into a single page that it almost seems like parody.

I guess this demonstrates the old cliche of the glass half empty/half full. Progressives are always unhappy, unpatriotic, un-whatever. They are against oil. They are against tax cuts. They are against personal responsibility. They are against God. They are against carbon. They are against the military. They are against liberty, wanting more government instead. Everything they are for is misanthropic. They favor legislated equality. They favor equal rights for terrorists. They favor trees over people. They favor endangered insects over people. They live in a world of constant anger. Everything is wrong. Everything needs change. America, the awful.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are believers in the idea of liberty and, therefore, believers in people. We believe that people are the products of their choices, not the byproducts of a deck stacked against them. When they go down, we offer them a helping hand–not because the government makes us, but because we want to. We believe America is good enough to defend. We don’t weep when the terrorist dies, but hunt his buddies down wherever we can find them. We’ll chop down a thousand trees and stomp the spotted owl out of existence to save the life of one innocent child.

Our forefathers gave their lives to found a country in which liberty could endure. In their day, they were the progressives. How far that notion has fallen. Progressive now means nothing better than moving farther and farther from the liberty we began with. And, hell no, they aren’t patriotic. That would be too damn much to ask, wouldn’t it?

Read both posts in full, here and here.

And just think: I've been working on getting some patriotic material ready for Friday ... they'll be time, but the work deflecting the left is never done!!