Because you are not connecting the dots, Lane.
Perhaps some of the dots you are connecting are figments, products of confirmation bias.
And believe they are telling the truth.
If they truly believe themselves to be pro-America, how could they be otherwise? I can't imagine how anyone could be anti-American and not know it. Anti-Americanism requires a hostile motive, it seems to me. Even if you act against America's interests, if you truly believe that you are acting in America's best interests, assuming, of course, that "America's best interests" are known and absolute, which they aren't, I don't see how you can be anti-American. Mistaken, even horribly mistaken, but not anti-American.
When you find people who are almost reflexively against every action we take as a country, that's them.
That doesn't fly. When people profoundly disagree with the powers that be, it's natural for them to oppose the vast majority of the decisions. If others were in power, say Gore or Hillary, you would oppose with the majority of what they do. Would that make you anti-American? I think not. |
