Fundamental Changes to our Country part 2 or how I learned to despise Dennis Prager

Actually I've always despised Dennis Prager, since I first encountered him, when he was mostly focused on hating Islam and making nonsensical arguments in favor of this belief. 

These day he has a different Jihad - against Leftists, but not Liberals.  So that lets me off the hook right?  I mean I'm a liberal, right?  Not so fast - he quickly includes President Obama and Elizabeth Warren as Leftists which means he probably gets to condemn me too.

The difference between Liberal and Leftist is that Liberals love America and Leftists don't.  Rather because Leftists make common cause with people who are critical of America and are critical of America ourselves (as I certainly have been) - we don't love America.

He then goes into the canard about how we want to fundamentally change America.  Did  Lincoln hate America when he ran as an open abolitionist?  Did FDR when he ran on a new deal?  Did Reagan when he ran on morning in America?   All of these are transformations (two good and one bad in my opinion).  But Prager has a unified theory about what a "real" America is, and it's one that excludes anybody who isn't conservative.

So when Colin Kaepernick knelt during the singing of the National Anthem to protest how many blacks were being shot down by the police in America it shows contempt for America - or his version of America.  Since I want a more racially just America, I thought that what Kaepernick did was admirable.  But wanting a more racially just America shows that I don't love America.  Somehow.

He says that we are critical of America as evidence that we don't love it - but it's a child's argument.  We are critical of what America does wrong because want it to do better.

Also Liberals don't love Christianity or Capitalism so we don't love America - because those two things are the core of America?  Bad luck for members of any other faith in America.

Finally there's this twist of the knife.

Love is, among other things, an emotion. So, here is a question about leftists' emotions: Do any leftists get the chills when the national anthem is played or when they see the American flag waving as the anthem is played? Given their rhetoric, it is most unlikely. 

Well I still do - somehow I'm able to believe in the ideals of America without needing to pretend that it is perfect. 

But then again I'm not a child. 

Bridge to Far

Was sick all last week and this week kind of hammered so short thought today, responding to Scott Morefield's latest article.

Might there be some who want to see him impeached as a sort of punishment or check, but think tearing the country apart by removing a sitting president and essentially undoing the 2016 election is a bridge too far? It’s quite likely, but we won’t find out with any of these polling methods.

The thing is there's an element of truth in his contention.  If it really was a perfect call and there was no quid pro quo than yeah actually bringing Trump to the Senate floor to remove him from office is a bit too much.   But in the calculation of many, there is enough evidence there to justify further investigation, and everything we find out seems to paint the President as more and more guilty. 

Morefield's (and the President's) argument seems to be, if you don't have enough to get a conviction, end the investigation immediately.   Pretty good deal for the President, but let's recall the Starr investigation which started off looking Whitewater and ended up being about the President having sex - if the Morefield investigation policy had been in place then would Clinton have still been impeached? 

Well of course - Clinton's a democrat, and he's surely guilty of something, but Trump is a republican so any investigation is phony baloney.