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⌈ Secret Post #2218 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How big are you on patriotism?

[(Anonymous)]

I would consider myself patriotic in the extreme (and I am, for reference, an American). But the definition of patriotism that people are working from in this thread, and in this country, seems to be pretty far removed from anything that I mean by it.

For me, patriotism doesn't mean that I think America is the greatest country on earth - I don't know what that even means - or that the country is flawless, or that it's necessarily great to live in. For me, what it means is this. First off, there are a set of ideals and a set of laws that seem to me to be the foundation of what America is, and I really strongly believe in those ideals. They're not at all ideals that America has always or even often lived up to, but they've always been a part of the nation. The idea, on a fundamental level, of republicanism, democracy, egalitarianism, and republican liberty are things that I really believe in. And, to me, those are a part of America.

And the other thing that I love is the culture of America - the poets and the writers and the thinkers and the musicians, but just as much, the food and the folkways and the regionalism and the cultural heritage of America as a whole. And I really do love that. So for me - I really identify with that culture and with those ideals, and because of that, I feel a lot of affection for America. While at the same time strongly opposing a whole lot of shit in America as it actually is, which seems to me to be harmful and bad, or actively in opposition to the ideals that are so central to this country for me. That seems to me to be a necessary component of patriotism - to oppose imperialism, and injustice, and inequality, and to defend the republic and its ideals.