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dcrazyyesterday at 10:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America. Because as long as there is anything to criticize about America (which there always will be), some people simply cannot make a single truly positive statement about America, or even things that happened in or came from America.

Slate is even worse than The Atlantic in this regard.


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mathgeekyesterday at 10:33 PM

> This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America.

This is a form of victim blaming. The right side of American politics gets away with it not because the left complains, but because the right doesn’t get punished at the polls for doing it.

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cmayesterday at 10:35 PM

Finally the explanation for why the Trump campaign slogan "Keep America Great" resonated so well against that kind of opposition backdrop.