"Father, there are many who want to destroy us from outside this nation," Broun said. "Folks like al-Qaeda and the radical Islamists. But there are folks that want to destroy us from inside, the progressives and the socialists, who want to make this nation a nation that's no longer under you, under God, but a nation that's ruled by man." Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) This was part of Representative Broun's 4th of July prayer delivered to the Cobb County GOP at a holiday barbeque. Progressives are lumped in with terrorists as forces arrayed to destroy the American way of life. In order to be the better equipped progressive in these highly polarized times, we can't write this kind of rhetoric off as merely hate and use it to justify a broader division between the ideologies that make up our country. That kind of thinking offers the tempting yet destructive justification to answer in kind; to get nastier and up the ante of our fighting. This, in turn, ris...
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