Brits: how much do you hate Americans

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Rich, don't be too chary of jingoism -- the witless Left uses it as a swearword to apply to anyone to the right of Hillary at her most pseudohawkish (no, I don't trust her hawk cries -- she's posing) on the assumption that they can con anyone into believing that anybody patriotic must also be mindless. What gets the Left sandbagged frequently is their habit of assuming what ain't so -- and then they get left in the dust with their pants around their ankles, irrelevant and ineffectual again.

Not wanting to be irrelevant or ineffectual, I've adopted -- from, oh, about age eight -- a different kind of philosophy of life. Carrying on about "jingoism" says more about the speaker than the recipient. The dorks for whom all patriotism is blind or irrational -- these people have absolutely nothing to contribute, and should really move to the caves of Tora Bora in pursuit of the Secret of Life. They could use a life, let alone a secret.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

The dorks for whom all patriotism is blind or irrational

You've got it wrong. It's not that all patriotism is blind or irrational. It's that blind or irrational patriotism is bad.