So says NeoCon Bitch-Boy Jonah Goldberg in his article
The left's patriotism gap
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'Unity is the great need of the hour. ... Not because it sounds pleasant or because it makes us feel good, but because it's the only way we can overcome the essential deficit that exists in this country. I'm not talking about a budget deficit. ... I'm talking about a moral deficit. I'm talking about an empathy deficit. I'm taking about an inability to recognize ourselves in one another; to understand that we are our brother's keeper; we are our sister's keeper; that, in the words of Dr. King, we are all tied together in a single garment of destiny."
So quoth Barack Obama in Atlanta on Jan. 20, but it might as well have been last week, so central is unity to his presidential campaign.
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What is fascinating here is not the sentiment, but what's missing from it. The P-word.
To invoke patriotism seriously is to brand yourself either an old fogy or a right-wing bully. If Obama spoke about patriotism with the sort of passion he expends on unity, many would take him for some sort of demagogue.
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Let me get this straight. I’m not sufficiently patriotic enough or I don't love my country because I don't say the P-word?
I guess I just don't meet the right’s standards.
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In America, patriotism -- as opposed to, say, nationalism -- is a love for a creed, a dedication to what is best about the "American way." Nationalism, a romantic sensibility, says "my country is always right." Patriots hope that their nation will make the right choice.
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Right-wing assholes like Jonah are the least patriotic people around. Sure they talk up their own patriotism all the time, just like they talk up their own religiosity all the time, but when it comes down to it, they put party before everything else including country and are adamantly opposed to paying any share of the taxes necessary to make this country great. If you aren’t willing to support the collective enterprise known as American government then you aren’t really patriotic.
Period.
Your Chinese made flag lapel does not make you a patriot, asshole.
Never has, never will.