During the primitive part of the 1940's, Hollywood made a digit of World War II movies with the aim of not lone sought to entertain, but in addition to heighten the spirit of "patriotism" in the American nation. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Eder Flag, in Oak Creek, Wis., is the largest producer of American flags and flagpoles. What is left is a kind of lowest common denominator—what all Americans have in common, whatever that is—that tells us nothing about everything, nothing specific anyway, a hollow shell, a ghostly abstraction that we honor with the name "country".
Most Americans agreed, and I think we were right. National Constitution Center: The Center works to increase public understanding of and appreciation for the Constitution, its history, and its contemporary relevance. I claim that being a national patriot, giving loyalty and priority to one's own national community and one's own national fellows, can be consistent with basic moral requirements that are universal.
And a country in which people applaud while politicians repeatedly try to restrict access to health insurance and thus health care in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic is not a country that values itself — let alone its veterans, when more and more service members and veterans are being diagnosed with COVID-19 When the politicians who should be offering guidance and help to the people are instead largely focused on helping the economy despite the increased risks to the people, telling us that it is for our own good, that is not
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Yet, strange to say - though it is undeniable that the universal armaments and destructive wars which are ruining the peoples result from that one feeling - all my arguments showing the backwardness, anachronism, and harmfulness of patriotism have been met, and are still met, either by silence, by intentional misinterpretation, or by a strange unvarying reply to the effect that only bad patriotism (Jingoism or Chauvinism) is evil, but that real good patriotism is a very elevated moral feeling, to condemn which is not only irrational but wicked.
Under this view, Lafayette was devoted to the ideals of political liberty that underlay the American Revolution, but was not specifically patriotic for America. Originally called Armistice Day, November 11 officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later.