In Republican America, "citizenship" is something to sneer at. I'm just saying.

This recurring theme of turning "community organizer" into some kind of epithet, like communist . . . that's really disgusting.
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Community organizers are the ones who take the responsibility upon themselves to help their fellow citizens without the benefit of a government budget behind them, and go out there every day doing the hard, thankless work to make this country livable, which is what allows you politicians to be able to go on tv and brag about how this is the greatest country in the world. And for you to go on that tv show and spit in those people’s faces for the sake of a rhetorical flourish? Is disgusting.
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All you Americans out there . . . who go out there with your fellow parents or your church to help the community. The Republican party just went on tv last night and said that you and your church are a bunch of suckers. Are you just gonna take that?

Via EotAW. The American West is *all about* citizenship. Or should be.