that's my biggest fear, walking by a wall and 60 lb bag of DRUGS lands on my head.

Nighmarish

You who sit on the fence rather than pick a side claim the moral high ground based purely on the elevation of your perch on the fence.  

This is why I think you are a dolt.  

 
Poor baby.  You really have no sense about what this county is.  This country takes a back seat to no one.  We set the standards for Freedom for the rest of the world.    Sure it ain't perfect, but its better than anywhere else, on paper at least. 

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty ...  

I guess you want to turn the reigns over to somebody else.  And just who are you going to put in charge ?  Its a short list.  China or Russia.  The Federation of Planets is not available.  And don't you dare say the U.N.  

In case you haven't noticed the presidential pivot, we now have a cease fire in Syria that has lasted an unprecedented 5 days and counting.  Brokered by Trump.  The man has stepped up to the plate and is getting base hits and has scored a couple of runs.  The definition of politeness has been hijacked and replaced with the definition of political correctness.

You are just Pollyanna or want to be.  We had 8 years of Pollyannaism and the world is a much worse place than when he took over, forging the kind of decline that you are rooting for.

You believe that Trump supporters are blindly stupid in lock step ignoring all of his faults.  You are out of touch with reality.  With your world view as illustrated above, it is impossible for you to even think of seeing what his supporters see.  Trump is not business as usual.  Get over it.  He still believes that America is the best thing that ever happened to this planet and so do I.  That alone is enough to piss off all the Lefty apologists who think like you, we should sit on the sidelines and let some one else do what America does.   The civilized world is a better place because of America, its strengths and virtues.  Who else can make that claim ?  What other major country grants power to the government by the governed ?  Its a short list.  I'll wait for an answer.

He never had the benefit of the doubt by any other than his supporters and that includes the republican establishment.  He was pronounced a disaster before he started.  So why should we care what you or anyone else thinks about him at this point ?   Yeah with all of his warts and flaws, he's doing pretty well in spite of all of the obstacles being placed in front of him.  We see the hate and opposition he is facing vs his accomplishments so far and are thinking he's doing ok and would be doing a hell of a lot better if he had some support.

You expect Trump supporters to roll over and play dead because you and the establishment types we are trying to run out of power think we will because we are just blind sheep with short attention spans, easily tired and easily dismayed.  It ain't happening.  The more you all pile on with all of the BS and Russia shit, the more it makes us dig in and see it as a fight to the finish.  You ask about Patriotism.  I guess you are gonna find out what it really is, the hard way.
  
 

Then you have a perception problem.  I think something much different.  I think of something worth fighting and dying for.

I can't speak for others (legitimately) but I hate seeing the undereducated, lazy, demanding, selfish folks shouting "Merica! Freedom!" as a way of escaping the demands of living in the nation. I mean everyone: hippies and rednecks and immigrants and college deans and where those overlap.

As soon as someone shouts "Freedom!" at me, I think "Slacker." Get up and help. Work together with the rest of us. Earn this.

  Freedom doesn't just happen.  Freedom is earned and the result of hard work, responsibility, creativity and unwavering dedication to a set of principles.  At least that is the way I was taught and believe it to be.

Anyone who takes Freedom for granted is not worthy of it.

 Steely_D wrote:
Ever been to Mexico? Hard-working folks there. Creative as all get-out. Most of them are responsible.

Across an imaginary line no farther than you could throw a rock are pretty much the same people: hard-working, creative, responsible. One side is a prosperous country that achieves great things, the other...less so. By about any measure, but by the most honest one especially: people have to be kept from crossing that imaginary line by force, nut only in one direction.

There is more to it than hard work and such. There are necessary conditions for human thriving, and one of them (at least) is the freedom to better your own lot. We can argue about whether the US is a greater country than Mexico, but there is no argument about which side of that imaginary line attracts people trying to escape poverty. And you can repeat that experiment all over the world with the same result.

I'll repeat my new argument: linking America and Freedom together is a bad message. It's a reworking of the hippie ethic, which is not what made the country great. It's a code word for abdication from responsibility and hard work.

America became great by hard work, creativity, and responsibility. Not freedom. That would be the endpoint, but not the first on the to-do list.

I'll repeat my new argument: linking America and Freedom together is a bad message. It's a reworking of the hippie ethic, which is not what made the country great. It's a code word for abdication from responsibility and hard work.

America became great by hard work, creativity, and responsibility. Not freedom. That would be the endpoint, but not the first on the to-do list.

I'll repeat my new argument: linking America and Freedom together is a bad message. It's a reworking of the hippie ethic, which is not what made the country great. It's a code word for abdication from responsibility and hard work.

America became great by hard work, creativity, and responsibility. Not freedom. That would be the endpoint, but not the first on the to-do list.

(...) We set the standards for Freedom for the rest of the world.    Sure it ain't perfect, but its better than anywhere else, on paper at least. (...)

In case you haven't noticed the presidential pivot, we now have a cease fire in Syria that has lasted an unprecedented 5 days and counting.  Brokered by Trump. (...)