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Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts) Sat Sep 25, 2021, 10:30 AM Sep 2021

It always amuses me when we hear "that's not who we are as a nation" [View all]

When indeed it is exactly who we are.
I wish this wasn’t true but the facts speak for themselves.

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It always amuses me when we hear "that's not who we are as a nation" [View all] Horse with no Name Sep 2021 OP

Indeed! We love to say "We just don't do that here!"... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #1

The pandemic emergency has revealed our national character. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #2

Good, bad, ugly & willfully ignorant! Dustlawyer Sep 2021 #18

Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2021 #3

Why the forgetting that a majority of Americans are much better? Hortensis Sep 2021 #4

Less than half the eligible voters vote leftstreet Sep 2021 #5

Not voting doesn't get them off the hook. Salviati Sep 2021 #15

C O R R E C T ! Cosmocat Sep 2021 #25

Roughly the same proportions as in revolutionary times. Hortensis Sep 2021 #34

Yes ugly and loud too. Just because the ugly loud people get the press... LakeArenal Sep 2021 #6

My negative imaginings must be related to the fact that I live in Texas Horse with no Name Sep 2021 #7

But our institutions allow that loud minority to control the country Freddie Sep 2021 #8

You hit the nail on the head Mysterian Sep 2021 #11

RW forces of evil, and I believe that's a valid decription, have been Hortensis Sep 2021 #16

This☝️ I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author Rebl2 Sep 2021 #19

:) Oh brother? Stand back and look beyond this "the sky already fell" Hortensis Sep 2021 #24

And yet, we see overt racism is alive and well, institutional racism is worse than ever, PatrickforB Sep 2021 #17

:) How does an economist measure every glass as dirty and Hortensis Sep 2021 #28

I have a really good job and have worked there for over 30 years. PatrickforB Sep 2021 #38

Well, I guess it explains your attitude. I'm sorry you've been Hortensis Sep 2021 #39

Yeah, I hear that. I really felt sorry for Hillary in the early 90s. PatrickforB Sep 2021 #40

And then I get...quietly enraged. I try to be realistic, Patrick, to accept that Hortensis Sep 2021 #42

americans just need to stop ignoring 1500 coordinated radio stations certainot Sep 2021 #33

i agree. ignoring talk radio continues to be the biggest political mistake in history. much of certainot Sep 2021 #30

"You are what your record says you are." - Bill Parcells Grins Sep 2021 #9

Depends on who or what constitutes "we as a nation." Ocelot II Sep 2021 #10

+1000 paleotn Sep 2021 #22

"Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources." pecosbob Sep 2021 #12

Well, maybe. We can certainly hope for that before these Dem assholes run out of time. calimary Sep 2021 #35

It makes me gag as does "only in America" nonsense grantcart Sep 2021 #13

See also: "Those aren't Christians" nt Gore1FL Sep 2021 #14

Who are "we" anyway? In reality, we're a conglomeration of different peoples.... paleotn Sep 2021 #20

It's who we have, in many ways, become dlk Sep 2021 #21

It is, as Stephen King might put it, the dark half peppertree Sep 2021 #26

Amusing? How about frustrating and nauseating? dchill Sep 2021 #27

I've stopped being amused by those statements. halfulglas Sep 2021 #29

It bugs me a bit too, but I guess you have to think of it as an aspirational declaration... Silent3 Sep 2021 #31

Beyonce PSPS Sep 2021 #32

Death cult, war profiteering, seditionist, science denying, racist hillbilly, predatory insurance traitorsgalore Sep 2021 #36

We are better than that some say pwb Sep 2021 #37

This nation was built on slavery and genocide. KentuckyWoman Sep 2021 #41