Re: What is patriotism?
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I think 'my country right or wrong' is one of the dumbest things someone can say but feel free to pursuade me I'm wrong. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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My Country, When right keep it right; when wrong, set it right.
That's patrotism in a nutshell, love for one's country.
Some love it so much it may blind them to it's transgressions. Others love it so much that it drive them mad to see transgressions occurring and not being corrected.
Many liberal, anti-war radicals are patriots. Many right-wing conservative war hawks are patriots.
In fact, most everyone with an interest in the goings-ons and strong opinions either way are patriots.
They just disagree on who is right and who is wrong not for their love of country, but over their implementation of policy.
Both sides are patriots, one side thinks we are currently in the right, the other thinks we are in the wrong and is attempting to set it right. Either way, regardless of who is really 'right', they are both patriotic in their intentions and actions as they beleive them.
If you cast a ballot, you are a patriot. It matters not for whom you vote, whether it be right, left, middle, or independent, or even if you write in your own damn name.
Being anti-war does not make you unpatriotic, just being for the war does not in and of itself make you a patriot.
Caring about your country, it's direction, and it's future makes you a patriot.....and whether you agree or disagree with current policies or the administration doesn't change that.
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