Good. Patriotism leads to nationalism, xenophobia, and racism.
Patriotism itself isn’t bad. I would love to live in country I’m proud of.
In order to feel patriotic you’ll have to have failed history.
This is the result of the Republican party, starting at least with the Bush neocons, weaponizing patriotism to be a way to slander their critics, and to publicly demonstrate their allegiance to the conservative movement.
After a couple decades now of conservative pundits and politicians responding to criticism by implying their opponents don’t love America as much as they do, or even trying to stifle conversation by demanding everyone profess their love of America on the spot, I think everyone else is pretty sick and tired of the flags and pins and stars-and-stripes punisher tee shirts.
“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.”
-Al Franken
no shit, sherlock.
zero reason to be proud of a fascist government.
fuck the 4th of july.
I’ve never been diagnosed with “clinical depression”.
I’m guessing now it would be “yes”.
My country is completely losing it’s shit and even an Ocean wide bidet isn’t good enough to clean the asses of 75 million Harris voters.
This. And I’m otherwise a very patriotic American veteran.
Great, so you’re organizing with your fellow veterans to do something about it, right?
So, has anyone actually read the 1,000+ pages of the Big Bill?
Because if you did, I promise you wouldn’t be celebrating a time America gained her independence knowing that our government is about to rewrite history just so they can have a big old tax break with the blood of Americans on their hands. Democracy was a nice 250-year project while she lasted, but she’s at her end now thanks to the greed of a few, it appears.
Can confirm. Proud of my state (California) but almost zero pride left for my country. Trying to figure out if I should flee the continent or start building guillotines.
