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You don’t protect my freedom:Our childish insistence..calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy
Salon ^ | 11-9-2014 | DAVID MASCIOTRA

Posted on 11/10/2014 5:18:33 AM PST by Citizen Zed

Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as “heroes.” The rhetorical sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, but it also makes honest and serious conversations necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of a fragile democracy nearly impossible.

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To: a fool in paradise

well yes, liberal hypocrisy is a given.....all the time


81 posted on 11/10/2014 2:58:16 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Citizen Zed

That’s one ugly gay dude.


82 posted on 11/10/2014 2:59:08 PM PST by Fledermaus (REPEAL OBAMACARE!! Hold the feet of the GOPe to the fire!)
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To: Fledermaus

Certainly no stranger to the business end of a dic#.


83 posted on 11/10/2014 3:35:13 PM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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