text: do liberals really hate america? or is this a convenient way to rally the ignorant masses into simplifying an issue? her's the long answer. don't read on if you have a limited attention span...  most liberals don't hate america. some do no doubt. what i think is that when some consevative talking head comes on the tube and says liberals are baaaaad!!!!, many people swallow it. there are many impressionable people in this country who are damn mad and want to quench the bloodlust generated by the 9/11 attack. capitalizing on this wave of patriotic zeal the hard core neo-cons (which are not the same as average republicans) manipulated the entire post attack national conversation. they saw this national tragedy as a way to implement a broad and radical shift in u.s. foreign policy. the neo-cons were able to do this because nobody, republican or democrat had the balls to stand up to this radiacalism in the shadow of 9/11. the small govornment, fiscaly responsible republicans have watched in disbelief as our budgetary spending has gone where no tax and spend liberal ever dared take it. inflating the budget wouldn't be so bad if it went to sensible programs for security and to update ifrastructure.but instead it is being used as thank you money in the form of "pork barrel " spending around the country, into the districts of those congressman and senators who vote in favor of the neo-con agenda.  the term liberal is batted around so much it's funny. what the traditional notion is referring to is a tax and spend agenda. giving poor and underprivelaged people breaks and assistance in a multitude of areas, thus taking money from the people who earn money. these liberals are actually really angry with the current administration for the way it uses tax breaks for the wealthy. then using the budgetary process gives more money to the wealthy via the industrial war production inflated by the war on terror. then it gives  no-bid contracts to companies such as kbr (haliburten) and others connected to the neo-con teat. what you have is a giant spending machine where the profits keep returning to the same people. this notion has yet to sink in with most republicans. they are still too enraged by 9/11 to open their eyes to what is happening. they are being manipulated to cast out the liberals with all of their uppity talk of constitutional law and limited executive power. those aren't sexy ideas to think about and for this reason most of the ranting conservatives simply roll their eyes and shake their heads,and proclaim "we should pitty those poor deluded liberals". well one day (or not) the rest of the country will wake up and join the liberals. the old fasion reagan conservatives will wake up the quickest. they'll wonder why g.w. hasn't seen fit to put an end to the orgy of spending. why would we mortgage our future so a handful of companys can prosper in the near-term? that doesn't seem like conservativism. the very reason for anti-liberal angst (out of controll spending) is the lifeblood of the current administration. only this time the poor don't see the benefits. it is the mega-corporations getting our tax dollars without the oversight of the congressional budget oversight commitee. it all boils down to this: aside from their left wing social views, liberals are actually doing the work of the minority in any democracy. they are trying to balance the impulse of the current leadership to gorge on as much money and power as they can before their time is up. the rhetoric is so amusing. those stupid liberals. when will they ever learn? it seems our job as citizens isn't to think for ouselves but is to regurgitate the meaningless and empty words of our righteous benefactors the neo-conservative puppet masters. all of you liberals and conservatives should be thinking for youselves. it is a pity there are so many uneducated people in this country who speak so loudly. they try to convince the masses that it is better not to be "smart". "you don't want to be like those elitist 