".....midget belongs up a tree dressed in a green suit baking cookies"
Posted on 07/04/2016 4:44:21 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Robert Reich wants Americans to be vigilant this July 4 against “exclusive patriotism” that “asserts a unique and superior ‘Americanism.’”
(Daily Caller) – Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and current University of California Berkeley professor Robert Reich wants Americans to be vigilant this July 4 against “exclusive patriotism” that “asserts a unique and superior ‘Americanism.’”
“We hear a lot about patriotism, especially around the Fourth of July. But in 2016, we’re hearing about two very different types of patriotism. One is an inclusive patriotism that binds us together. The other is an exclusive patriotism that keeps others out,” Reich writes.
Reich claims that “we’re now hearing a strident, exclusive patriotism. It asserts a unique and superior ‘Americanism that’s determined to exclude others beyond our borders.”
Reich, who served as Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor from 1993 to 1997, cites supporting tax cuts, building a border wall and celebrating entrepreneurship as examples of “exclusive patriotism.”
“Donald Trump famously wants to ban all Muslims from coming to America, and to build a wall along the Mexican border to keep out Mexicans,” he says. “Exclusive patriotism tells us to fear foreign terrorists in our midst — even though almost every terrorist attack since 9/11 has been perpetrated by American citizens or holders of green cards living here for a decade or more.”
“Inclusive patriotism instructs us to join together for the common good,” he says. “Such patriotism requires taking on a fair share of the burdens of keeping America going — including a willingness to pay taxes.”
“Exclusive patriotism,” on the other hand, “celebrates the acquisitive individual and lone entrepreneur. It tells us that taxes on the wealthy slow economic growth and deter innovation.”
“Trump wants to reduce the highest income tax rate to 25 percent from today’s 39.6 percent. No matter that this would result in higher deficits or cuts in Social Security, Medicare and programs for the poor. They’re supposedly good for growth.”
Reich goes on to ask, “So will it be inclusive or exclusive patriotism? A celebration of ‘us’ or contempt for ‘them’?”
“Inclusive patriotism is our national creed. It is born of hope. Mean-spirited, exclusive patriotism is new to our shores. It is born of fear,” Reich writes.
Reich endorsed Bernie Sanders in February but has since instructed Sanders’ supporters to “Be prepared to work hard for Clinton if she gets the nomination.”
Earlier this year, he wrote an article for Salon calling Trump a “21st century American fascist.” “Trump’s entire foreign policy consists of asserting American power against other nations. Mexico ‘will’ finance a wall. China ‘will’ stop manipulating its currency,” he wrote.
Valuable American lives were lost so pompous traitors like this one could have the right to spew their poison against a nation that protected his traitorous ass.
Oh, shut up, Robert Reich. Go get drunk and set off inclusive fireworks. You were a towering bore even before you were a has-been towering bore.
Parents who send their children to Berkley don’t love their children or America.
Well said, Homer.
On this lovely day, he instructs us to pay more taxes. Where is the tar? The feathers?
I wish people would stop giving this little sawed off piece of Eichmann sh!t any platform to speak. His ideas, his impact and his importance to the America of today are about as useful as a bottled-up old fart from King Louie the 14th of France.
He needs a firecracker shoved up his backside! He is an insignificant piece of human debris that was happily appointed a professor at a left-wing California school to preach his anti-American views.
He is properly aligned with the two most corrupt, evil, murderous duo to ever crawl out of a sewer to lap up wealth through politics.
".....midget belongs up a tree dressed in a green suit baking cookies"
Oh, well said!
The globalist twerp speaks.
Posts BUMP!
So nice to hear from the lone surviving member of the Lollipop Guild.
Happy Independence Day guys!
Every time you wave the Stars and Stripes, remember that this poison dwarf hates both it and you.
Hopefully that will give you a smile :0)
Can’t we just ship him off to East Germany or something?
Yes, towering. All 4'5" of him.
“Towering” bore?
;^)
Here we see the gnome posing with a normal sized American. It's difficult for Reich to purchase trousers of a proper length and he buys his clothes in the boy's department.
Fork 'em all this Independence Day. And fork you especially, Robert Reisch, for not standing for your country when given the opportunity. Instead you bad-mouth our love of America. Fork you.
I am for "exclusive" patriotism which excludes Reisch and his ilk since they don't believe in America anyway. Good riddance.
The 4th Reich ..... short lived.
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