Patriotism is under attack.
A nation cannot stand when the two uniquely intrinsic qualities of Individual Freedom and Patriotism of the Nation-State are abhorrent to the people in power. The fear of both qualities becoming unchecked is not a good enough reason to create a structure built on actively proposing government policy to police, censor, and criminalize these principals. Arguments and theorizing can live in the abstract. Government policies cannot. For feeding an abstract theory too much belief and power creates a living organism usually antithetical to the already universal truth that supports the existing ecosystem. The social cohesion of our communities and the people that make up the communities may very well be individually abstract in nature and have unique perspectives; but that all has to head into one direction where there is a sense of immaterial universal truth for even a modicum of success.
Whether Black, White, Muslim, Christian, or Jew-- it is of no matter. Our leaders must inspire all to believe and celebrate Individual Freedom and Patriotism. The most interesting and American part of it all, is those concepts can mean different things to everyone. Even neighbor to neighbor. But at the very least the generalization of our common end-game as a society must be within all of us. Whether unconsciously or consciously; otherwise not only will hearts and minds wither away into a dissolved state of desensitizing dismemberment as a Union-- but even worse how will we ever win a tangible war again? Or even agree upon what constitutes winning a war means. America is still very much a young experiment. If we don’t treat it as such, and also revere the great humane strides she has made in such little time--this experiment will become nothing more than a botched Third Grade volcano Science Fair project that never reaches a beautiful crescendo.
At this rate we are unfortunately doomed to slowly devolve into a stagnant totalitarian state like all of the rest democratically focused experiments in human history. Stop caring about the insults or judgements of the people who actively hate freedom of expression, and the love for what this country is, and what it could be. The potential of this experimental nation state is not something to pivot away from, and reconstruct into a misguided utopia. Utopias' are meaningless. There is no universal image of one. But a country at peace, and in love with its freedom; the images are endless, and boundlessly beautiful. Actively engage in fighting everything our current administration stands for, because if we all just apathetically turn away this will turn weird very quickly. Freeing Cuba is nice and all, but let’s first make sure we don’t end up like Cuba. For every second a man rots away in solitary confinement without being charged with a crime due to January 6th, our country becomes purely democratic in only a superficial, and nostalgic way.
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