I am so fucking sick and tired of the words "Liberty"," Freedom", and "Patriot" being

[busterbrown]

hi-jacked by the republican party and used strictly to advance their right wing anti-middle class political agenda.......... How the hell did the democrats allow this to happen?................................... During the past 70 years did republicans sacrifice more blood and guts than did the democrats?

Are you going to also tell me that Jimmy Carter's wise decision not to bomb the hell out Iran and possibly start a major world wide event was the beginning of this shit?

[freshwest]

1. It's a lot older than Carter and the hostae crisis. The Koch brothers had a lot to do with it.

[Jim Warren]

2. >

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson 1775

[oldhippydude]

3. its been going on at least back to the Mc Carthy era...

the John Birch socioty co-opted those terms... most of us who grew up in the 60's, came to accept that many of those buzzwords, were simple propoganda phrases..

for the right wingers it goes back at least to the immediate post ww2 era

[busterbrown]

4. Roosevelt and Truman lead the nation to victory. Quickly forgotten? Thanks for reminding me

Teachers, Hollywood, Intellectuals all democrats and therefore all communists.
What a dumb country to fall for dumb shit like that!