re: I no longer believe in the concept of Patriotism.

I’m patriotic to the ideals this country was founded upon, and an enemy to that which opposes those ideals.


IOW, the flag is not which stirs me. It’s just cloth, and USA is just an acronym. The ideals we were founded upon is what stirs me. The minute those ideals are superseded by a flag on a flag pole that doesn’t embody those ideals anymore is the minute I quit getting stirred by that flag because it no longer embodies American ideals, but rather servitude and a perversion of what my country was supposed to be.