Just in Time for the 4th of July!, A love letter to the nation from Progressives

[OrangeEmpire]

I know it is a little late, but my goodness.......:cray:

Put away the flags

On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?

These ways of thinking -- cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on -- have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica and many more). But in a nation like ours -- huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction -- what might have been harmless pride becomes an arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves.

Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy.

Thoughts?

 

[BigPapaVol]

I know it is a little late, but my goodness.......:cray:



Thoughts?

We are different from other nations by virtue of our Constitution. We, as humans, are like the rest and can claim no superiority there, but our constitution and capitalist system have made ours the greatest nation in the world since the Romans. Why should we stifle pride in our nation, since that is the one thing that will help us preserve our greatness.

 

[MG1968]

so, progressives think we should renounce the flag, etc in favor of what?

and if they think that the US is the only source in the world for racism, genocide, and religious hatred, then perhaps they'd like to spend a week in Warsaw, Poland during the first week of September, 1939 or the Darfur region of the Sudan.

 

[allvol123]

Can we keep the flag and just put away the fireworks? Neighborhood fireworks guy makes me....:furious3: