Sophomoric, perhaps even puerile.
I am not the most eloquent person, and I regret sounding puerile or sophomoric about something which means so much to me, and that is the fact that I was so immensely fortunate to have been born in the United States of America, when I born here. I am not an historian, but to me, it seems that being an American means you are one of a very small group of people ever born, free people.
The Constitution makes my freedom possible. It is a necessary but not sufficient reason for our freedom. We also need men and women of good faith who understand the significance of the Constitution to our freedom.
The principal criticism of leftists and liberals is their disdain for freedom. "Our own," to my mind, are those who understand and are grateful for the blessings of liberty we have.
I have been fighting this fight since 1965, and pretty steadily. If you really want to fight against those who would destroy the liberty we enjoy today (so little compared to a few generations ago) you would be welcome.
Fighting the Left has been and is tooth and nail, no mercy, no surrender. There is no room at all for sentimentality. The Left has been winning for a long, long time, and are within a short distance of victory. The GULAG is darned soon unless the anti-Leftists are one heck of a lot more successful than they have been for the last century or so.
Warfare, fighting, is first, and foremost, a pragmatic affair. The mission comes first, above our feelings, opinions, lives, or honor. Wants or fears.