Instead of using it as a starting point for introspection and thinking how America could become a better country, people get all up in arms and say "Leave the country, we don't want you".
Are people so intellectually lazy that they can't think of a rebuttal for the person's claims and just opt for the less mentally taxing road of saying "Get out"?
2007-04-20 16:35:27 · 13 answers · asked by hyungbinkim 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think you are misreading some of these.
From what I have seen many people rant and rave, insult the President, the US, the citizens, our soldiers, Mom's Apple Pie and Uncle Sam and do it all with a lot of venom and vulgarity. These folks are rabble rouser and hate mongers and I agree, maybe they should just leave, I think we would all be better off.
This is not the same as intelligently expressing your opinion on a policy.
2007-04-20 16:48:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they're either uneducated or have forgotten that this Country is for the people by the people.Do the SAME truths not still hold TRUE? It is We the people still isn't it? Or has the Patriot Act or some other amendment changed that to?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, 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, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. THE TIME HAS COME TO TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY! IT HAS BECOME THAT CORRUPT! It is our DUTY.
2007-04-21 00:17:40 · answer #2 · answered by Noneya B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will try to explain, though I doubt you will even bother to read this entire post.
I hear the phrase used more often than I care myself. I use it, when I have had enough...from someone who refuses to provide source and fact to back their point of view.
To simply spew your opinion, then expect "everyone" to simply accept it, is crazy! Why not use an equally insane comment to respond with.
It's not that I want anyone to leave. I just refuse to cow-tow to the spin. When I've had enough...then I just say...Leave it if you don't like it.
And why not?? The other person CONTINUES to sit and spew the nothingness. Even when they have been proven wrong, in most cases.
It's not intellectual laziness on my part. It's intellectual weariness. I refuse to be worn down by the dumb@$$es of this country.
2007-04-20 23:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. It depends on how you present your ideals. Have a bit of common sense. If you're in the deep South, don't try to get into debates where you present a liberal point of view. Especially if you're a minority, there's lots of swamp. The extreme right who are militantly anti-immigration don't speak for the whole country. If you say you hate America, than that's another issue altogehter. At that point you can't show anti-American sentiment and then expect people in AMERICA to support that.
2007-04-20 23:41:55 · answer #4 · answered by jon s 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I love a healthy debate, and under no circumstances would I tell someone to "get out" of the country if they dissent from my opinions. I think it is contrary to American principles to do so. Our country was FOUNDED on political dissent and a desire to freely express your opinions regardless of which way you might lean. So sad for those that claim to be patriots, yet belie the principles that pariotism represents.
2007-04-20 23:43:44 · answer #5 · answered by Katie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I only say that to people who claim to hate America or think it's not the best place in the world.
For the second part, I merely say it because they don't realize that we have it easy even compared to other industrialized countries.
2007-04-20 23:42:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, people on both sides of the political aisle are that intellectually lazy and incompetent. It is kind of sad really.
2007-04-20 23:38:36 · answer #7 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We just want you to leave if your going to spend every waking hour of your life slandering the country, which coincidentally is practiced by most liberals.
I prefer to keep them around to use as dog food in case there is another recall.
2007-04-20 23:40:24 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Samaritan 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't know you personally but I think you're on the right track and I support your position.
2007-04-20 23:40:11 · answer #9 · answered by Don W 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
these are the same people who say you are free as ong as you do what we tell you to!
They are just trying to be dictators!
2007-04-20 23:38:41 · answer #10 · answered by onesinnergirl 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋