ק Anti-American Americans; Ignorance of History. The American Spectator notes that liberal politicians often praise "American ideals" generally at the same time as they condemn every American ideal individually. This fits into a bigger idea: the modern liberal seeks to destroy his past. He implicitly or explicitly condemns every single person who lived more than 50 years ago as being reactionary, patriarchal, racist, and so forth. That must include George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, and so forth. The obvious implication is that if "America" is defined by anything more than 50 years old, America is evil.

In his stump speeches, Kucinich often invokes the need to live up to "American ideals." But then everything he says about America is so dastardly, so vicious, so demeaning, that if you'd never heard of the U.S., you would think the world better off if the rogue nation was destroyed by a large comet.

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