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kimbutgar

(21,157 posts)
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 12:36 PM Feb 2017

As an alternate to the tea party we should call ourselves "the real Americans"

The America that you can inspire to the dream of "having the American dream"

The America where you can make it if you try regardless of your sex, race, sexual orientation or religion.

The America where there is justice for all.

The America that will accept what is on the Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

The America where you can get a first class education.

The America where you can get Liberty and justice for all.

The America that we care about our fellow Americans.

The America where there is a separation of church and state.

The America that adheres to the laws of our constitution.


PLEASE ADD ON

This is what we are, not the tea party but "the real Americans".


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As an alternate to the tea party we should call ourselves "the real Americans" (Original Post) kimbutgar Feb 2017 OP
How about just "the Americans"? The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2017 #1
The GOP would modify this a bit to read: guillaumeb Feb 2017 #2
You got that right kimbutgar Feb 2017 #3
True Patriots. We believe in the rule of law, even Blue_true Feb 2017 #4
The "Truthful and Verbal Majority" Louis1895 Feb 2017 #5

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,732 posts)
1. How about just "the Americans"?
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 12:42 PM
Feb 2017

The Tea Party used that "real Americans" phrase on liberals and it was divisive and infuriating. Why not go for something inclusive? Americans.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. The GOP would modify this a bit to read:
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 01:06 PM
Feb 2017

The America that you can inspire to the dream of "having the American dream"

The America where you can make it if you try regardless of your sex, race, sexual orientation or religion.
As long as one is white, straight, male and Christian.

The America where there is justice for all.
For all who can pay for it.



The America that will accept what is on the Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Not likely.

The America where you can get a first class education.
If you can afford it.

The America where you can get Liberty and justice for all.
If you can afford it.

The America that we care about our fellow Americans.
Who look and vote like us.

The America where there is a separation of church and state.
What?

The America that adheres to the laws of our constitution.

Only those laws that protect white dominance.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
4. True Patriots. We believe in the rule of law, even
Sat Feb 4, 2017, 01:52 PM
Feb 2017

When we object. If we don't like a law, we work within the Constitution to change it.

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