I think that Bill is absolutely right in creating a dichotomy between the Americans on one side (who can be liberals or conservatives or whatever) and those who oppose America on the other side. I just have one objection: don’t call them anti-American. Call them Un-american instead. There are multiple reaons for this.
Syllables
Anti-American has 6 syllables, whereas Un-American has 5. It may sound like a small difference but it rolls more easily off the tongue, and is therefore more memeable. It matters.
Rhyme
Un-American “rhymes” with undead. This creates an association to mindless zombies rather than to thinking beings. I believe this is precisely the association we want to create.
Established trope
“Un-American” is already an established trope to denote unpatriotic actions. One may argue that it is less confrontational than anti-American, but at the same time un-American invokes a long history of patriotism.
Finally, I have added an image of how an America First re-invented Republican Party could look like. It’s just a mock-up but gives the general idea. Finally, rather than the elephant or the lion, the symbol of the movement should be the American flag.
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3 replies on “American vs Un-American”
“Un-American” seems to soft to me, primarily because it has too much association with un-American activities of the McCarthy years – which many people today wear like a badge of honor. I think something more aggressive and in-your-face, like Anti-American, is precisely what is needed here. Something they don’t want to be called and something that will put them on the defensive.
I am not sure if using a term like un-American works with the baggage it already has. Some people are probably prone to thinking that we’re calling them Communists (and like the idea) and others that we are still scared of the Reds and just rehashing old tired tropes.
It might not work out but the word that came to my mind as I started to type this was anath-American. It conjoins the word anathema and in many ways, what a lot of these un-American people are doing is certainly anathema to the principles and ideals of America.
I agree with you completely, these MORONS in office and the people that “elected” them have such an easy life compared to just say 50 years ago, that they invented a new religion that they can obsess over 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and push their new God (politics), onto everyone else without any(much) resistance.This has become their way of life, and they have everyone, the schools and colleges, the media,(most of it) the entertainment industry, and these bullshit organizations BLM and ANTIFA doing the dirty work. Who is paying these clowns? Has one single democrat publicly spoken out about these assholes and called them out for the violence that always magically appears when they do? These assholes are the text book definition of UNAMERICAN!