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Related: About this forumRobert Reich - ...."What's the true meaning of Patriotism?
http://robertreich.org/post/25903259668Full title - Excluding Outsiders or Coming together for the common good - What's the true meaning of Patriotism?
"Recently I publicly debated a regressive Republican who said Arizona and every other state should use whatever means necessary to keep out illegal immigrants. He also wants English to be spoken in every classroom in the nation, and the pledge of allegiance recited every morning. We have to preserve and protect America, he said. Thats the meaning of patriotism.
To my debating partner and other regressives, patriotism is about securing the nation from outsiders eager to overrun us. Thats why they also want to restore every dollar of the $500 billion in defense cuts scheduled to start in January.
Yet many of these same regressives have no interest in preserving or protecting our system of government. To the contrary, they show every sign of wanting to be rid of it.
In fact, regressives in Congress have substituted partisanship for patriotism, placing party loyalty above loyalty to America."
snip - much more and well worth reading. As always with Mr. Reich.
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Robert Reich - ...."What's the true meaning of Patriotism? (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2012
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It means not favoring wage-lowering, let's-send-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreements.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2012
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pipoman
(16,038 posts)1. I don't know.
I know what it's not. It's not selling US labor down the shitter whilst sitting as labor secretary.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)2. It means not favoring wage-lowering, let's-send-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreements.
Robert Reich's support of NAFTA, although good for the corporate owners and the stock markert, has been proven to be a disaster for the American working class (and those formerly in the working class).
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)3. In my opinion, there is very little difference between patriotism and
falling in love with fictional characters.