Why They Hate Us

[revree]

I am not talking about Muslim extremists. I'm talking about our own government. Why do they hate us, we the people, so much?
List your reasons here. I know, I know, where do you start...

[Ravenseye]

1. because we question authority

The Authoritarian Neo-Cons don't like dissention of any kind.

[The Deacon]

2. Because

We stand between them & World Dominance - for some reason the majority of the American populace just REFUSES to get behind the idea of an American Empire.

We ask for inconvenient things - like clean air, affordable health care, fully funded education, the right to practice our religion (or practice no religion) as we see fit and the chance to see our young people buy houses & staer families instead of dying tragically young in Iraq.

Many others - but that will do for a start.

[Protagoras]

3. Because we aren't shutting up and mindlessly working

to support them like the good Prols we're supposed to be. There is a real sense of entitlement at the top that believes it is divine investment by God which grants them all they have and the rest of us are lesser beings who's only purpose is to contribute or die.

When we are busy bucking the system, trying to be middle class, trying to advocate fair wages, treatment, taxes...trying to send our children to school, etc. We are undermining the God Given Order of their universe.

So they resent the hell out of it and need to slap us back into place.

Think they had something like this system in France a while ago. It ended badly for them.

[leftofthedial]

4. 1. Because if we actually lived in a democracy,

they'd be in prison.

2. Because we still have so much of "their" money.

3. Because freedom s not a right, unless you are born wealthy.