Everyone Understands That [democrat Senator Harry Reid]

I Have A Simple Answer To Any American Patriot Who Claims That There Is No Conflict Between His Love Of Country And His Desire To Hitch Our Fate To The United Nations: “you're Mistaken.” And, Therefore, I'm Thinking Of Adding This Corollary To My General Rule Of Patriotism: The More Intellectually Consistent And Pro-u.n. You Are, The Less Patriotic You Are Likely To Be. I Haven't Thought That All The Way Through, But It Seems Right To Me.

It Was In The 1960s That The Left Convinced Itself That There Is Something Fascistic About Patriotism And Something Perversely "patriotic" About Running Down America. Anti-americanism - A Stand-in For Hatred Of Western Civilization - Became The Stuff Of Sophisticates And Intellectuals As Never Before. Flag Burners Became The Truest "patriots" Because Dissent - Not Just From Partisan Politics, But The American Project Itself - Became The Highest Virtue.

But This Is The Kind Of Ass-clownery That Stems From The Fact That All Philosophy Looks Weird When You Don't Have One.

Government Money Only Pays For The "liberties" The Government Thinks You Should Have, And Therefore It Can Determine How You Exercise Them. That Turns Liberties Into Privileges Dispensed At The Whim Of The State.

If You’re Too Stupid To Understand That A Philosophy That Favors A Federally Structured Republic, With Numerous Restraints On The Scope And Power Of Government To Interfere With Individual Rights Or The Free Market, Is A Lot Different From An Ethnic-nationalist, Atheistic, And Socialist Program Of Genocide And International Aggression, You Should Use This Rule Of Thumb: If Someone Isn’t Advocating The Murder Of Millions Of People In Gas Chambers And A Global Reich For The White Man You Shouldn’t Assume He’s A Nazi And You Should Know It’s Pretty Damn Evil To Call Him One.