2. Loyalty
This reminds me of a thread that @saywhenla posted yesterday. Hope he doesn’t mind if I quote it here.
https://twitter.com/SayWhenLA/status/1150810900070359042
Loyalty is the emotional attachment you have for something. It’s the feeling that it belongs to you and you belong to it. Loyalty is what keeps you attached to something even when things start to go wrong, which they almost always do at some point because that’s just life.
But when you have no loyalty to a thing — to a partner, a family, a nation — you’re going to treat it like a rented car. You’ll keep it only as long as it’s useful to you and you’ll see no reason to take care of it, because you have nothing invested in it. Just like that rented car, “it ain’t mine so it ain’t my problem. It’s somebody else’s problem.”
This is why importing huge numbers of foreigners who have no attachment to the USA or our way of life or history is so extremely damaging. Like Ted Kennedy’s treasonous bill. It never should’ve been allowed. Look at what they vote for.
They aren’t here because they love the USA; their loyalty and emotional attachment is elsewhere. They’re just here for that “better life” and to send as much cash to their HOME country as they possibly can. That’s why they’ll march in the streets of a US city demanding better benefits and opportunities while waving the flag of their HOME country. This is your country without Loyalty.
Once you tell people the govt is going to take care of something they immediately forget how to do it themselves.
I remember having a long debate with an HR weenie about the difference between Respect and Loyalty.
I was taught early in life and in the military that respect comes from a position, rank, age, etc. That is due independent of the individual due to the title, experience, etc.
Loyalty on the other hand is earned by the way the individual acts.
Thus: Respect the rank, not the person.
The HR weenie kept trying to tell me that you can’t be loyal if you don’t respect the person and loyalty is to the position not the individual. We “settled” on agreeing to disagree, but I never had a good relationship with management after that conversation.