How can some people?

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on here call themselves americans, but hate the government? I dont get it, learn to support or at least respect the decisions that our elected officials make. Sure you may not have voted for them and may not like everything that they say or do, but why knock them or talk crap? Be happy that your an american and that you have all the freedoms that you do, many people have given their lives for it, past and present. I just heard that in Cuba they cant have sattelite TV......and that its a punnishable crime, would you rather live like that as a commies play thing or as a free person who can do something as simple as surf the net or watch whatever channel you want to? Dont call Bush a killer of women and children when you dont have all the facts, he is trying to protect the greatest country in the world, The United States of America. Give the man a break
Support The US Troops!!!!!!!!! and Government!!!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok i mean American as is what america stands for like liberty and freedom, not wether you were born here or not.....tssk

ahhh whatever man i just think that some of the government haters should be a little bit more patriotic

Answer 1

people that are born in America are Americans even if they don't like the government

Answer 2

I am more American because I DO question our government. I think a better way for you to ask a question like this is to say Why don't those who disagree come up with a solution rather than simply placing blame. Yes the Bush administration totally screwed things up but to just point your finger and say Bush is an idiot doesn't solve anything. Cut and run is NOT A SOLUTION.
Support the troops by maybe making a few sacrifices. We have $3 a gallon because we don't lower consumption. Maybe we should stop driving all over hell and back and save some of the oil for the military. How about cutting those tax breaks to the logging and oil industries and using that money to fund the war. How about dropping petty issues like gay marriage, abortion fights, and any of the other BS Republican stomping blocks and focusing attention on finding solutions to the real issues of our time.
The US is the greatest example of freedom the world has ever known and people like you on the right trying to doubt patriotism because we don't agree with you blindly is almost as great an attack on this freedom as is these Muslim fascist.

Ok...I'm done ranting. As you can tell I dislike both the Left and Right.

Answer 3

The voice of decent is alive and well in America now as it was after our Independence. There will always be some who would follow Hitler blindly to their death. GOD bless America is also my prayer.
I also pray GOD will keep us from those who would do America harm. To blindly support our leaders in war is wrong. It is not a GODLY act. To Lie is wrong, that is not Godly. To mislead the public on every issue is wrong and that is not a GODLY act.
You mention respect, did your father teach you that respect is earned by actions not words. My Father did and my Father in heaven gave me ten commandments to live my life with, These were not suggestions, they were laws we all must follow. GOD was asked. What is the greatest commandment? God told us "the greatest Commandment is to love thy neighbor as thy self".
One can not kill what one in fact loves.
Under Republicans Government has grown bigger not smaller. Debt has never been higher, the trade deficit is out of control and Republicans let 30 million illegals into this country and want more not less. Republicans have sent good paying jobs to other countries and sit by now with gas at $3 a gallon and do nothing.
Bribes are flowing into Congress from the wealthy who want even more tax cuts and also want to move the $2 trillion cost of war in Iraq to the working class to pay for their mistakes. Republicans have long had the goal to end Social Security, they hate it, they would be willing to send the USA into bankruptcy to end S.S., they don't care if your Mother starves and lives in the streets, they care about tax cuts for the wealthy. A Godly person would not agree that any of this is best for America.

Answer 4

This is like asking ordinary German citizens in 1943 to stop protesting and respect the government because they don't know all the facts. The people HAVE to hate this government, and have it put on record that they always hated it. It's the only way the nation will be able to look at itself in a mirror, or on the world stage, once the insanity of the Bush administration is over.

Answer 5

We don't have to like what the government does, or like the people in it....and we have the right to say so....Being american means having the right to "talk crap" about the goverment. That is a freedom we have. ON the other hand the people like myself who get tired of hearing it.....well we have the right not to listen.... so both sides can argue all they want and we as people have the right not to like it or listen to it.....With the freedom of speech comes the fact that we are going to hear things we don't like....we have the right not to listen.

Answer 6

Man, your argument was so eloquent that I have totally changed my point of view on things!

Come to think of it, we've had it wrong all the way back to those wacked out dissenters called the Founding Fathers. They should have just sucked it up & accepted things the way they were. Who the heck were they to argue with the status quo?

(later--)
But seriously--read maguire1111's answer below, especially the Twain quote. Beautifully reasoned & eloquently expressed, and a best answer in my book.

Answer 7

You ignorant F#ck. Ever heard of the first ammendment. Something about freedom of speech.
You like the internet, why don't you use it and research what really happened-- the vote in 2000, 2004, 9/11/2001.
You like being an ignorant sheep, i know you'll like paying back your share of the deficit your esteemed president is puting in your future.
The only thing he is doing is puting money in his friends pocket and taking it out of yours.
Turn on your tv and watch away, have fun you ignorant sheepish bore.

Answer 8

Americans have the right to criticise their government, it's one of the "freedoms" you talk about. It's in the Constitution. Disagreeing does not equal hate. When your friends or children or spouse disagree with you does that mean they hate you?

Answer 9

Certainly you've heard the line in the Gettysburg address "government of the people, by the people, for the people" or the sentiments from of Declaration of Independence that "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."

Yes - the great minds in our country's history assert - the government is in our service, not the other way around! The declaration of Independence states it is my right, even my duty, to question and seek alteration of my government should it not provide for our citizens! I don't have to be happy with the freedoms I have and leave it at that. Men and women have not died in war for me to complacently twiddle my thumbs while the government acts in ways I see tyrannous to us, the people. Our founding fathers gave me that right.

So don't you dare insinuate that I am unpatriotic for questioning my elected officials. Patriotism is not support for your government - it is support for your country. To my country I am loyal to the end, to my troops I am dedicated, and of my government I am demanding. And that's exactly the way it should be.

There's a paragraph in Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court which I think it quite clever. He wrote, "The country is the real thing, the substatial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over and care for, and be loyal to; institutions (governments) are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to worship rags, to die for rags - that is loyalty of unreason."

Answer 10

Forget the arm chair quarterbacks and 20 / 20 hind sighters !
Go with what you know is right .