Reply #62: Well, that's your opinion, and you have a right to it. But others do feel differently.

[MADem]

That's why so many come here and take citizenship. Because the level of freedom we enjoy here is the most important thing to them.

I daresay if you were born in Iran, or a number of other repressive nations, and living there now, you might find something to like about this place. BushCo notwithstanding. By the same token, you might cry in longing for the land of your birth, even if you couldn't live there because it was so repressive. The people who come here and take citizenship do it after weighing the good and the bad. And yet, they still come.

It's just counterproductive, and revealing, really, though not in a good way, when insults are thrown at people for loving their country.

I sense a sort of insecurity whenever I see that kind of stuff; the old "too cool to like the US" attitude. They wouldn't toss the same insult at someone who longs for the lost land of Armenia, I'm guessing.

No one is FORCING anyone to feel the same way, but why insult people who do have that view? It's just...well, cheesy. Childish. And dumb.

What is anyone tossing that kind of crap trying to prove? That they're too "cool" to like being a US citizen? I happen to like it, otherwise I wouldn't be here enjoying it. I don't really care if others don't like it, that's their choice, but I can't see any utility or maturity in making fun of people with a different view. I really can't.

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