Letters to the Editor
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Loving America
I don't understand why they are so offended that people actually love America.
There is nothing wrong with loving America. I love America, but I hate the fact that(as George Orwell once said about England) that we are like a family with the wrong members in control.
Crazy Uncles George and Dick have brought the ship of state very close to the rocks and we in America have lived gloriously beyond our means for a long time by means of bullying the rest of the family of nation into accepting the rules that we lay down and using our currency as the international means of exchange.
Now the rest of the world is getting fed up with Uncle George and Uncle Dick and with us for hogging the world's resources and keeping other nations poor.
The Europeans have set up a rival currency and while theirs is increasing in value, ours is going down the tube, meaning that we are paying more and more for the oil that we need to maintain our suburbias, our cars, our heating, and our air conditioning.
All this nonsense about God damn America is just sleight of hand to distract the uneducated proles from asking questions about how George and Dick's policies and their idiotic war is melting down the once mighty dollar into dimes.
Same with flag burning. Although it hardly ever seems to happen, if people do burn the flag it is surely because they believe the government of the day is betraying the ideals of the American revolution--not that they want to abolish America.
Rev. Wright has talked some crap about AIDS being deliberately spread to Blacks. But it is true that White American has only allowed Black America to be part of the family if White American gets to make the ground rules. The Supreme Court ruled Dred Scott less than a hundred years before I was born, and it took a war to get it reversed, and even then organized resistance lasted for another hundred years.
What we need is to work had to ensure that this time around the presidential election is fought on the issues--the crimes of the Republican administration--not on "four legs good, two legs bad" slogans about things that have nothing to do with the Federal Government.
All preachers are crazy, but somehow Americans love them. But we should not be distracted from political issues over a crazy preacher. McCain, strangely enough, seems to have been about the only politician in living history who has denounced people like Falwell and Robertson as "agents of intolerance" and he paid for this once, but it would be strange if he eventually came to power because a Democrat has links with a crazy preacher.