We used to be in this together – Americans were Americans, and we simply disagreed on various policy points. I don’t feel that much anymore. My entire life I’d heard “Death to America” from various Middle Eastern countries, now I hear it from Democrats. I can’t get along with people like that, and I have no desire to. As a proud American, you can now walk the streets of Riyadh or Dubai more safely than you can through the quad at any major university in this country. Our enemies don’t have to try to destroy us, they simply have to wait – Democrats will work tirelessly to do it for them.

I used to have a sense of empathy, or sympathy, or whatever – a bond with other Americans, automatically. When I’d hear stories of some horrible tragedy or see a profile of a small town with a collapsing economy, the feelings were automatic. I never liked to see suffering human beings anywhere in the world, but when they were Americans it was more real; it hit differently. 

Now, sad to say, when it is some leftist person, group or in a liberal stronghold, I have difficulty caring. New York City is heading down a pathway that will devastate its economy and harm New Yorkers in real ways and I’m here for it. They voted for it, they cheered the ideas behind it. My........

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