LAWRENCE, Kan. - After listening to as much right-wing talk-radio as I can stand and having endless arguments with hardcore Republicans in person and over the Internet, I have now established what it means to be a REAL American patriot. And boy, have I been totally wrong about what it means to be a good American! Just in case any of my fellow pinko-commie-bleeding-heart liberals have also been confused about what it means to be a REAL American patriot, let me clear things up for you.

Being a REAL patriot means that you get a job and you work your *** off until the day you die. You don't ever, ever, EVER apply for unemployment or welfare, because that is pure communism. If you're out of a job for awhile and you lose your house and have to live in your car, you can go wash up at the corner gas station, pull yourself up by your own darn bootstraps and start over. This is America, where opportunities are boundless.
Doesn't matter if you're black, or a woman, or Hispanic or whatever. You just take whatever job you can find and accept whatever measly scraps they pay you, and you don't complain, even if it's not enough money to pay your bills or keep your kids. Affirmative Action? Please. That's for socialists and pansies. Besides, racism and sexism don't exist in America, so just shut up about that stuff already. No one wants to hear it.

Medical insurance, and thus medical treatment, is a privilege, not a right. Big difference. If you don't have insurance, then that means you are either too stupid or lazy to get the right job. It does not matter if there are people dropping dead of illnesses in the street. Those people were either too stupid to get the right jobs that provide insurance, or they didn't put money away in savings for medical expenses. Doesn't matter if they are being paid minimum wage. If they'd handle their finances correctly, they'd figure out how to put a little money away for a rainy day. It also does not matter if a few people go bankrupt because of high medical bills. Those weaklings shouldn't have gotten sick in the first place.

Cancer? Cancer is for communists. Insurance being a privilege and not a right also means that if your kid catches TB from another kid in his class whose lazy-*** liberal parents couldn't get a decent job with decent insurance that's just too effing bad. You shouldn't have your kid in public school, anyway. They should be home schooled, so that they don't have to learn that brainwashing, PC liberal compassion and Darwinism crap.

Speaking of minimum wage, that's another pansy-*** thing America definitely does not need. Minimum wage is for communists and whiners. Vacations? Eff that. If your job isn't giving you vacation, or "gives" you vacation but then doesn't actually let you have the time off to take it, well that's your problem. Change jobs if you don't like it.

And family leave for havin' babies? Hell, if women would stay at home where they belong in the first place, they wouldn't have to ask for leave, now would they? And dads? Dads never used to take off work when a baby was born. Why the hell do they need to now? That's just a bunch of PC, touchy-feely ********.

Capitalism = Democracy. Being a REAL patriot means that you understand that American business is king. What they say, goes. If that means cutting salaries and benefits to raise profits, so be it. Doesn't matter if CEOs of mega-corporations are making millions while the little people take home peanuts. The government doesn't question how I budget my money and it shouldn't stick its nose into corporate finances, either. Capitalism shows no mercy, and we shouldn't try to artificially build mercy into it.

Remember: Occasionally, big American business may need a little bailout from Uncle Sam, just when times get tough. This is not socialism. This is just a little safety net to ensure the American way of life. Unless, of course, the president at the time of the bailouts is a Democrat. REAL patriots know that commie-pinko democrat presidents who try to control private enterprise with taxpayer dollars are nothing better than treasonous pigs.

Being a REAL patriot means that you don't question your president, unless he or she is a Democrat. Should the highly unlikely situation occur that a black or woman Democrat is elected, he or she was probably not even born in this country and is therefore ineligible for the presidency. Do everything you can to prove this, because a foreigner in the sacred office of the president is not only unconstitutional, but against God.

Being a REAL patriot means that when your president tells you to go to war, you go to war and you get your *** blown up if that's what it takes, even if the VA doesn't have the funds to take care of you very well, because it's your duty as an American and a Patriot. And if you don't understand why the blessed United States of America is going to war, or the reasons the administration is giving you to go to war seem fishy or muddled, under no circumstance do you question your president, even if he or she is a Democrat. Serving in war is an automatic gold-plated ticket to heaven and proves your patriotism without a doubt. War is also good for business, and business is good for America.

Being a REAL American patriot means that you speak English, and nothing else. Choose two for Español? When they pry my American flag from my cold, dead patriotic hands
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Being a real patriot means I must accept crap like this because it is someones right to speak it...

It also means I must uphold that right to speak such crap with my blood if necessary...

even though I think the author is a mongrol...

Being a patriot means I disagree with you and all that you 'spew'... Yet I will stand beside you with vigilance if anyone tries to prevent you from spewing it.

ok, the commie thing I have heard ALOT and still dont understand why its such an insult....lol


the rest is hilarious stuff I have also heard but absurdities come from all sides

I think its many who think the the weak should die off and others feel that the strong should look after the weak

thats the main conflict in philosophy I see dividing america

for the OP, another commentary on patriotism


from http://www.timwise.org/2001/10/patriotism-as-pathology/

Patriotism appears to be nothing if not a pathology, by which I mean a deviation from an otherwise healthy, normal condition. Patriotism is unnatural and unhealthy because it requires, almost by definition, that one place one’s own countrymen and women above those elsewhere, in terms of moral desert or the right to life, liberty and happiness. It requires that one see nationality first and humanity as an afterthought: a process that is only possible within a structure of separate nation-states that itself came about not naturally, but as the result of specific historical circumstance.

Patriotism asks one to reify authority as manifested in national governments, and to believe, or act as if one does, that those who stand in the way of one’s supposed national self-interest should be brought under heel. That one only ends up in the nation one does because of happenstance becomes irrelevant. Patriots assume they earned their status as the chosen.

Adding to the problematic nature of patriotism in America is that to pronounce such a mindset good, one must also, so as to be consistent (which has never been a pressing concern for most Americans), consider patriotism elsewhere to be good. And by this standard, Osama bin Laden — a Saudi patriot whose “love” for his land inspires distaste for the presence of U.S. forces there — would have to be considered a veritable role model. One can’t have it both ways. If patriotism means, as it inevitably does in practice, a reflexive defense of one’s nation, then those Chinese who applauded the crushing of dissent in Tiananmen Square, or those Soviets who went along with Stalin’s purges, or those Germans who assented to mass murder by their silence and support for lebensraum, would merit respect on par with patriots of the American variant. By the same token, if we see in those other examples of patriotism real problems, shortcomings, and dangers, then so too must we accept that those flaws are across the patriotic board, the U.S. included. They are not merely the result of others’ inability to separate responsible from irresponsible nationalism. It is, all of it, fruit from a poisoned tree.

What’s more, flag-waving patriotism serves to paper over the real divisions and disunity that continue to plague our nation, claims of togetherness notwithstanding. It allows us to push to a tertiary region of our consciousness the racism, poverty, unequal health care access, crumbing schools attended by far too many of our nation’s children, or the police brutality and misconduct that has gone unchecked in city after city for years. It promotes the lie that we are “all in this together,” when in fact our interests are not the same. In a nation where stock prices, and thus shareholder profits, go through the roof whenever a company lays off a few thousand workers, we can hardly pretend that the interests of all Americans are similar, or that the dream of America is a shared one for all

LMAO

That's good.