A Pew Research Center poll last week found that among those who described themselves as solid liberals only forty percent reported often feeling “proud to be an American”
writes
Benny Huang. in an article echoing
Jonah Goldberg's
Resenting the Republic (Liberals take exception to exceptionalism).
The Washington Post greeted the survey with the headline: “Proud to be an American? You’re probably not a true liberal.”
What is it about this country that
brings liberals so much shame? It’s the people—our values, our habits,
our traditions. We’re an incorrigible lot. Too many Americans look, act,
and talk like Larry the Cable Guy. We’re obese and we only speak
English, perhaps not that well. I say, so what? While I can’t deny that
plenty of Americans fit that stereotype, those are both overlookable
faults. America is full of Cable Guys and that’s okay.
What Americans need, liberals argue, is to change; and if we can’t or won’t, we need to be changed.
We can start by embracing hate speech laws, then outlawing guns, and
finally getting excited about soccer. Except we musn’t call it soccer,
we must call it football, as the rest of the world does. Above all, we
must change our values and the way we vote so that they always win.
If that doesn’t work, liberals will just bring in a slew of (mostly
illegal) immigrants, transform them into wards of the state and register
them to vote, thus diluting the power of the Cable Guy voting bloc.
Behold the tsunami of children at our southern border and the giddy
liberal politicians salivating at the prospect of all those undocumented
Democrats. Texas will be blue in a generation if they have their way.
By bringing in enough ringers to vote for them, liberals hope to
“fundamentally transform” this country. America needs a transformation
because it sucks, that’s why.
What do they want to transform it to? Based on their
immigration policy it appears that Mexico is their model, but I don’t
think so. Their true vision of what America should be is something like
the Netherlands, complete with sidewalk cafes, baby euthanasia, and lots
of dope. How we’re going to get there by importing primarily
impoverished Latin Americans is anyone’s guess. In any case, it’s pretty
clear that they don’t like America the way it is now.
People of the Left generally struggle with love of country and not
just in the United States either. Most places I’ve traveled I’ve found
that people on the Right identify freely with their nations, while
people on the Left tend to squirm at the mention of patriotism and then
become very defensive. I’ve seen it in Japan, Great Britain and
elsewhere, but never as pronounced as here in the United States.
