July 4th: Writings From A Progressive

I'm presenting an article written by Matthew Rothschild because I'm fair-minded to all people. This nincompoop wrote it for Progressive Magazine which advertised itself as being around since 1909, Far be it from me to criticize a guy for being unpatriotic. I'm not trying to proselytize, either. As far as I'm concerned Progressives are a lot like homeless on the street. I feel sad them but I'm not going to try and change them. Besides, they're in the minority. Why, some of my best friends are the homeless whereas, progressives, not a chance. Presenting the ultimate Progressive insult: They are pitiful. Think about it. If someone calls you pitiful that's an unfortunate characterization. Actually, there's only one response to being called pitiful and that is: "Well, Chuck you, Farley"! It's the perfect insult. Without further ado I present the magnificent work of Rothschild. Take it for what it's worth:

"You can call me unpatriotic if you’d like, but really I’m anti-patriotic.
I’ve been studying fascism lately, and there is one inescapable fact about it:
Nationalism is the egg that hatches fascism.
And patriotism is but the father of nationalism.
Patriotism is not something to play with. It’s highly toxic. When ingested, it corrodes the rational faculties.
It gulls people into believing their leaders.
It masks those who benefit most from state policy.
And it destroys the ability of people to get together, within the United States and across boundaries, to take on those with the most power: the multinational corporation.
Plus, it’s a war toy, wheeled out whenever a leader needs to improve his ratings by attacking some other country—often after invoking God’s name, too.
It’s been so since the Spanish-American War and World War I and right up through the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.
American patriotism has also gotten in the way of solving global warming. Many in the United States, which consumes 25 percent of the world’s resources but has just 4 percent of the world’s population, believe we have the God-given right to use up all the resources we can. And there is an all-too-common attitude that we don’t need to listen to any other countries, or the U.N., or obey any international agreements because we’re Americans, and we’re better than everybody else.
We’ve got to get over patriotism, and we’ve got to cure the American superiority complex.
So celebrate the 4th if you like.
But as for me, between God, country, and apple pie, I’ll take the apple pie."