MGB:_The blame America first crowd is as libertarian as it is left. They defend Edward Snowdin and object to the drone bombing of American enemy combatants. They need to have a bit more empathy for the people trying to keep them safe. As for Israel, if it takes our money and proclaims are values, it should live them out. Bull Connor never pulled down the houses of civil rights workers or bombed women and children with the Air Force. Talking about empathy lacks among the neoconservatives like MSW.
If empathy is weak on the left, it is almost non-existent on the right when they look back on the 1950s when everyone knew their place, especially minority workers who were expected to toil quietly and politely. Their reaction to the first child of a Baby Boomer, who was a Boomer himself and was raised like one by his grandfather from the Greatest Generation is beyond embarrassing.
The average citizens who followed their lead have committed moral cowardice rather than patriotism in their selection of the following president. Defending him is not an act of moral courage, it is an endorsement of authoritarianism directed at ones least favorite people, usually the brown and black ones.
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