Originally Posted By DyGDisney Back from our flashback to Mississippi in the 1960's.... Does anyone else find it ironic that the people who carry guns to "protect themselves" from their democratically elected government are the same ones who have a cow if an American flag touches the ground?
Originally Posted By ecdc I haven't heard it put quite like that, but I've often thought about it. The people who claim to love their country the most sure do seem to whine about it an awful lot. America in their mind, is somehow distinct from her leaders and government. America is some vague, patriotic ideal that really never existed.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "ecdc is right. It's actually hard to tell whether this is serious or a parody of idiocy." Poe's Law.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 The thing is, those kinds of people only love "their America". They separate it in their minds, and can have this split view of the government when they didn't vote for that person, they can demonize them as if they were unAmerican.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>The thing is, those kinds of people only love "their America"<< And they are convinced that they and their walmart bought rifles are the only thing keeping this country from falling into tyranny. Their precious guns sure didn't the freedom killing Patriot Act. Heck, as a group they supported it. What it's really all about is the scary black man in the White House. And they oppose him because he's black. Not because of the NDAA he signed into law nor the use of drones, of that I haven't heard a peep out of them, so I can only assume they approve of that.
