Posted on 11/16/2018 6:50:45 AM PST by luke1825
Ask not what you can do for your country; but what you can do for me.
That in a nutshell was the essence of French President Emmanuel Macron’s prissy, Obama-like speech aimed at President Donald Trump at last Sunday’s Armistice Day observance in Paris.
Because if Trump, a selfdescribed nationalist, is putting America First, that means that there will be cutbacks — or outright elimination — in the financial and military assistance the U.S. has been doling out to France and Europe for more than 50 years.
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>>t would have been better if Trump used “patriot” instead of “nationalist”.
Disagree completely. Never allow the left to dictate what words mean, what words we’re allowed to use. It’s their most powerful weapon.
Outright elimination of financial and military assistance to Europe. Please do. The sooner the better.
Nationalism - synonym: patriotism
Yes, nothing wrong with being a nationalist advocating for nationalism. Our founding fathers were, and so are Americans that love this country.
While the two words are similar, a “nationalist” explicitly puts his nation’s survival above the welfare of those NOT of his nation.
The left wants to confuse the difference between loving one’s own country and believing that your country is the best and all others should be crushed. From the group that claims they understand nuance, they seem to miss the distinction.
“for more than 50 years”
For more than 70 years, actually. Can’t go on forever.
“Never allow the left to dictate what words mean, what words we’re allowed to use. It’s their most powerful weapon.”
Absolutely, he means the word “Nationalist” and it’s the word he should use. You can be a patriot without necessarily being a “Nationalist” although the two often go hand in hand.
Never let the left control your your dialogue because they color a word by intentional misrepresentation. Use the word often and drive home to the people it’s TRUE meaning.
The argument is apples and kiwi fruits
Trump is advocating nationalism for a soverign state.
Macron is speaking as a patriot of one of the states of a non existant united Europe. As a French state, advocating nationalism is wrong. Nationalistic states rights are superceded by the national EU soverignty
For the Nazis, their form of ‘nationalism’ had a definite racial spin..... so NOW, to be proud of your country is anathema
The people who hate US nationalism are the same people who do NOT know their history AND without knowing how or why, would support another tyrant who would hand them a twisted and deformed form of ‘nationalism’ they COULD swallow whole -like bunch of Nazis
“We reject ‘bourgeois nationalism’....The NSDAP is the German Left.” - Josef Goebbels
yep, they are, and yep on the rest of your comments. 8>)
Etymologyfrom Latin etymologia, from Greek etymologia "analysis of a word to find its true origin," properly "study of the true sense (of a word)," with -logia "study of, a speaking of" (see -logy) + etymon "true sense, original meaning," neuter of etymos "true, real, actual," related to eteos "true," which perhaps is cognate with Sanskrit satyah, Gothic sunjis, Old English soð "true," from a PIE *set- "be stable." Latinized by Cicero as veriloquium.
The only people who back Macron are the 20% of surrender moneys in France and the wimp weenies in our execrable US propaganda press.
IOW, nobody cares what Macron thinks or says.
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