Don't get me wrong, now.
They LOVE this country.
Not enough to pay more taxes, of course.
Not enough to worry about inequality. No.
Not enough to fight for health care and a quality education for all.
Not enough to be concerned about voter suppression and gerrymandering.
Not enough to be angry when the cops gun down another unarmed black or brown person.
No, that's not the kind of "love" we're talking about.
The kind of "love" they mean is "tough" love. Where they tell the rest of us to stop complaining about these issues and pull ourselves up by our bootstraps...because this is the "best country on the face of the earth" and "God loves the USA" and "poor people are lazy" and "welfare cheats are stealing from us all" and "food stamps make people dependent and obese" and "health care isn't a right" and "corporations and wealthy people are hideously overtaxed" and all of the other nonsensical bullshit they're so fond of spewing.
That's the kind of love they understand.
The wrap yourself in the flag, wave your Bible, and bitch about the "takers" kind.
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