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I mean this in the best possible way, but it gets really tiresome listening to you guys saying everything you don't like is just like the French Revolution. No libertarian would say as Robespierre did, "It is also true that this sublime sentiment assumes a preference for the public interest over every particular interest; hence the love of country presupposes or produces all the virtues: for what are they other than that spiritual strength which renders one capable of those sacrifices? And how could the slave of avarice or ambition, for example, sacrifice his idol to his country?" Nor would a libertarian want state-sponsored worship of a deistic supreme being. Last time I checked, that's what conservatives want. (Or do you think the "god" we're supposed to be "under" is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?)