The core of socialism is hatred of freedom and independence from officials. It is an impairment of insisting on control of others for soothing relief from personal suffering as if social change will become personal balm for old wounds.
The idea that some officials feel so threatened by patriotism confirms the fears of patriots. Officials and patriotism should go hand in hand, but do not since the sixties. Too many wish patriots ill. These are the very last people to have political power.
But if the incoming Congress does not see this in colleagues and others, we're just as cooked as without them. It is this sort of go-along-to-get-along values system which makes it hard to see any difference in the parties. Republicans talk about conservative values, but will compromise with leftists who hate America even when they are sent to Washington to be partisan. Lady Liberty is partisan, for Pete's sake.
Otherwise, now's your chance, Republicans, to serve the Republic. It means no such thing as sensible gun laws, it means no tolerance for official spitefulness against patriotism, and it means being so much in touch with liberty constituents that there really is no future for socialist candidates.
Republicans were not sent to Washington to see things their way, but sent to Washington to see things our way.
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What this video does is intentionally widens the "us vs. them" divide between citizens and police, heightens the paranoia, and makes the most innocuous of encounters much more dangerous. Now, thanks to SPLC, something as simple as having a political bumper sticker on your car, supposedly protected speech, takes a heightened alert situation and urges police to view non-leftist political sentiment as a potentially lethal personal threat. Because with all the conflation, what message will be enough to trigger a protective reaction?
[ . . .] It is probably accurate to say that no country in the world has less government intervention in the lives of its citizens than America does. But Democrats do not like such American distinctiveness. They want America to be like other countries. The president, recall, does not believe in American exceptionalism.
When I first heard this story, I had to think about it for a bit: 
