LOL!
He's perfectly welcome to leave for whatever second or third world Marxist paradise he thinks is better...and please Matthew, don't even think about returning!
The North American Hippy Loon will never become an endangered species. They are all over the place.
Actually he disproves his point, because by his own admittance his utter corrosion of rational faculties can't come from patriotism.
Matt should spend more time in a nonpatriotic country
North Korea perhaps? Cuba? Russia? Germany? South Africa? Iran? Liechtenstein?
Ahh, so the elimination of nations would solve the problem. Okay anarchist, which village you gonna belong to?
He is just spreading misinformation. He knows socialism leads to fascism.
This is written as if Barry Soetero himself authored it.
By its very nature, there has never been a sovereign country that did not encourage patriotism. Relatively few of them have become Fascist in a real sense (as opposed to left-conformist hyperbole).
Rothschild really only decries American patriotism, out of malice toward this country specifically, or more likely out of ignorance of the kind of jingoism and nationalism that are a way of life in Europe, the communist countries, and the rest of the America-hating parts of the world. The degree of nationalistic boasting we hear from European visitors would be embarrassing to Americans if it weren’t so infuriating in its transparent hypocrisy.
One usually hears this from people I call hinterland elitists, college grads or students who had high status in the back-of-beyond towns where they grew up, but who find themselves struggling to maintain that status when they get out into the big world.
If you’re around students much at all, this is as characteristic as a finger print. The loudmouthed lefties are invariably children of local muckety-mucks and small business owners who find themselves in shock at not being anything special anymore, hence the attention-grabbing embrace of contrarian politics. As Dennis Miller said, “Contrarianism is distinction for the untalented.”
This is as far from truth as can be.
It is not patriotism that causes facism.
It is the willingness to invest the government with too much power. Like your health care, your car purchases, your energy supply, etc.
HA!
I have a few choice things I would love to call him and if lucky enough to be able to do it face to face I am confident in my ability to wipe the "intellectual" attitude right out of his demeanor and bring out the REAL commie in him.
You know, when the little twisted sick-o libs get all red-faced, screechy and start dropping "f-bombs," M-F’s and incoherent accusations about "Bush."
HAHAHAHAHA! FUN!
ping (for the cartoon)
The moronic left wants people to think that other nations use less by choice. It because those nations don't have the capability of doing such.
If this pathetic excuse for a functioning human is the editor of the Progressive Magazine, I’d say they’re in a whole heap o’ trouble.
How do you solve a problem that is a total fraud?
We’ve got to get over patriotism, and we’ve got to cure the American superiority complex.
Globalist Communist stupidity on parade. (Progressives)
Oddly enough, it seems that every facist country started down the road to facism by giving power to a petty tyrant who promised to give them “what they deserve” by seizing it from a group they despise.
This is just my observation. I could be wrong.
Okay, Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine, name the country which, in the total balance of moral, technological, social, political, etc. value, is superior to the United States of America.
There are a few countries which may be shown to exceed one or another of our capabilities, in certain selected aspects, that is true. But in the overall balance of civilized advances in human culture, liberty, and helping our fellow man around the world, there is none which exceeds America. None!
So if we exhibit a certain amount of "superiority complex", I'd say we have earned it. Matthew Rothschild can kiss my American-made, superior @ss.
*Why should someone who openly admits of hating this country be allowed to live here in freedom?
*Because of his First Amendment rights?
*But don’t his/her fellow citizens, who do not hate this country, also enjoy the same rights of safety, pursuit of happiness, and protection by the same Constitution?
*Is it not logical to assume that someone who openly admits to hating this country is predisposed to harming the country thereby also endangering its citizens who do not hate the country?
*Does it mean that the law equally protects both the potential criminal and the good citizen? This means that the good citizen is at a distinct disadvantage for he cannot anticipate the criminal’s intent, isn’t he?
All you brainy and rational FReepers please shed some light on this delemma.
My grandaughter had a Russian teacher in high school that preached this garbage to the students and my grandaughter believed it. She is a few years older now and very conservative, thank goodness.
Yup, and drinking milk as a child leads to heroin addiction.
(Where do they get these guys?!)