20 Feb 2022 6:21 am
Cooperation is missing? No ****. When the primary founding principle of this country is individualism...what do you expect SJ. It's the I got mine, if you can't get yours too ****' bad, principle.SJConspirator » 19 Feb 2022, 4:10 pm » wrote: ↑ What does it mean to be an American Patriots?
It's defined thus: devotion to and vigorous support for one's country.
But that makes no sense to me. In every civil war, both sides claimed to be patriots as they slaughtered each other. Is patriotism expressed by murdering ones countrymen?
How does it manifest in any Way? Putting a yellow ribbon on a bumper sticker?
In this country, military vets are overepresented in suicides and homelessness. It is quite obvious this country hates vets. I am reminded of this every time I go to the VA
To me, patriotism is expressed by cooperation with fellow citizens, not by conflict with them. Yet modern Americans who deem themselves the most patriotic also seem to be the first to throw other Americans under the bus of hardship and poverty.
The most ardent patriots are the same ones promoting a rat race dog eat dog vision of society with no cooperation, only competition. They seem to hate other Americans intensely. Is this a paradox?
The country doesn't just hate vets. It hates anybody that interrupts their rights and freedoms to do whatever the **** they want, whenever the **** they want. So the country hates vets, the elderly, the sick, the infirm, the physically handicapped, the intellectually handicapped, the mentally ill...anybody who is inconvenient. The country hates children...the most inconvenient of us all. Want proof? The reaction feom the right to Sandy Hook.
So in addition to individualism, the country is founded on utopianism (every place else sucks), and puritanism (everybody else is going to hell). Add the genocide of Manifest Destiny, and the inhumanity of slavery...and it's a neat little package, eh SJ?
Americans don't have any more appropriate notion of patriotism and cooperation than they do of their "rights and freedoms." What most Americans see as their rights and freedoms, are in direct conflict with patriotism and interpersonal cooperation.
The definition you note...devotion and vigorous support of one's country, in the hands of Americans, is nationalism, pure and simple.