Reply #3: Damn straight

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See, I grew up in a country that was opposed to imperial wars, torture, war crimes, secret police and star chamber court proceedings. The country I grew up in favored civil rights so much that they were extended without question to even the lowest of the low, because the presumption was that rights reserved only for the few were not rights at all, but privileges.

I look at America under George W. Bush and the misrule of the Republican majority in Congress, and I don't recognize the country I grew up in anymore, even though my address hasn't changed. I hate what manufactured fear has turned our citizenry into, and I much prefer the country I grew up in.

The real question is, why do the Republicans love what they've done to America?