A letter to my Leftist, Moonbat Friends

At times I believe your views are honestly held. It's just that I think your view of history is dysfunctional.

You seem to force your own morality onto history. It's as if you hold history to a high moral standard and then spend all of your time in an outrage when it fails to live up to it (which of course it will).

You spend an awful lot of time outraged don't you?

Look, America has warts in it's history just like any nation on earth. What has been done in Latin America is a crime that is hard to argue away. I just don't think it even comes CLOSE to the crimes of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in even the slightest scale. All of the America bashing types always point to Latin America.

I don't ever pretend to think America is perfect, but as things are...America has caused a lot less harm in the world and a lot more good than a lot of nations. I also don't think that America is defined by the actions of it's government. This is why I agree with Reagan when he said "Government isn't the solution to our problems, government IS the problem" despite what our government did under his or any other presidency. This is why true conservatives hate big government...because big government is the gateway for all of the things you say you decry in your last post.

When it comes to religion...sure, Christianity orchestrated some awful shit. But heres the key...it doesn't any more and hasn't for centuries. I think most of that got out of it's system with the Thirty Years War. But while there have been some large coordinated efforts of persecution, I don't think they scale to the large scale industrialized murder of Communism and Nazism. Most of those organized efforts took place in the pre-industrial period and on much smaller scales.

Look, I can agree to some of what you say about rhetoric spouted by governments. Of course it would be nice if governments lived up to their rhetoric. But they don't. They never have, and probrably never will. Human beings are sort of like that you know? This is why I am a classic Liberal and believe in small government and individual liberty...it is a philosophy that has the most chance to do the least harm.

As a modern American...I know my country is not what it should be, that it has come far from it's own humble political philosophies. But I love it just the same. I'm not a jingoist who says "My country right or wrong". I am also not a neo-confederate who demands America return to some romaticized view of some sort of perfect form of constitutionalism that never existed. I just think we as a nation have our hearts in the right place, our hands out to a LOT of people in the world and our head up our asses at times (which allows for bad stuff to happen by us or because of us at times).

I just don't think you have a realistic perspective on history or humanity.