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.”
“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.”
Yeah, there’s a lot of truth to that. You also see the attention-seeking a lot with the spoiled lefties who had parents who were bigshot executives (Billy Ayers, Jeanine Garbuffalo- or whatever her names is, etc.). The kids probably didn’t get the attention they needed growing up because their parents were busy at work all the time and/or the kids were just inherently overly needy. So they grow up lashing out at authority figures to try feel validated and needed. I think they also view “America” as a replacement for their parents in some weird sense- a land of all the normal families that they never had- so they rail away with their attention-seeking (and quite frankly, banal) behavior.