As a part of the health care debate, the August town halls revealed the new meme now circulating throughout the conservative fear-based congregation, and that is that some how the country that everyone once knew is now somehow changed, because of President Obama, and all they know is they want their country back. It is hard to determine what their country is, some have speculated that it about race, meaning I (White Person) want my country (White person leading this country) back. Then there are those that say that it is merely the socialism or government take-over meme being played out these people's heads and they are wanting "my country" to mean, capitalism, or rather a perceived sense of a laissez-faire capitalism. There is also the now infamous woman who cried President Obama was not an American citizen and then cried "I want my Country back", so there is a perspective of an illegitimate government a cry for that to be brought back, to understand the inter-workings of a birther, you can read more about it in my previous diary about race in American.
In this entry, I will look at this new meme, and look at the perception these people feel, that is behind it. I will begin with some major examples of the use of this meme.
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