American patriotism is not a blood-and-soil nationalism but an allegiance to a country based in an idea of enlightened universalism. Thus our oiks masquerade as--and may even believe themselves to be--superpatriots, more loyal to American principles than the vast majority of Americans, whom they denounce as "un-American" for feeling an attachment to their actual country as opposed to a collection of abstractions.Read the whole thing.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
My New Favorite Word for the Left...
Oikophobic. (This is why it pays to read Instapundit)
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