Mar 22, 2010 23:18
Why do I get the sense that when Republicans use the term "the American People," they're actually just speaking in third person. I know that there are some that agree with the respective claims are made in the name of the American People, but the way they use the term, it's as if they think they are speaking for EVERYBODY, and people like me don't actually exist. Ok, so this kind of language comes from both directions, but these days it seems particularly shrill and suggestive that they are the only Americans; that the rest (of us) are EVIL Socialists, Fascists, or Communists aiming to destroy America.