Re: What is patriotism?
Clearly, patriotism means blind allegiance to the Republican Party, George W Bush and Pat Robertson. It means smearing your opponents as communists, socialists or simply "enemies of the state". It means celebrating words like "freedom" on holidays while working every other day to suppress those same freedoms for Americans who don't agree with you. It means celebrating "American history", while simultaneously believing that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D Roosevelt were agents of Satan. It means believing in freedom of religion for every religion that happens to be yours. It means accusing everyone who disagrees with you of supporting terrorists and gay abortionists.
Patriotism means "loving America" so much that you want to "cleanse it" of the 99% of Americans that you hate.
Patriotism means that torturing prisoners is ok.
Patriotism means that secret prisons are ok.
Patriotism means blindly supporting any war that the Party supports, no matter how many lies were told to get us there.
Patriotism means lengthy weather reports, while the crookedness of the regime in power goes unmentioned.
Patriotism means silence in the face of corruption.
Patriotism means amending the Constitution as a publicity stunt.
Patriotism means 7 trillion dollars in national debt, the looting of the treasury, and criminal neglect of America's national infrastructure.
Patriotism means you can wave a flag and all of this becomes ok.
Just as long as your followers are stupid enough to buy it.
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