patriotism to what is the title given by its author and here it is for you to consider;

I wish more people could see the United States Government for what it really is, a brutal organization seeking every means of stepping on one’s neck while they rip the wallet from their back pocket. What method of thuggery have they refused to utilize? A SWAT team descending on a local preacher or common welder who participated in a protest is not police work or law enforcement, it’s terrorism. It’s not fear of the preacher or common welder that dictates their actions, but the sheer terror they might strike into the hearts of patriots that they strive for. Kill one to terrify ten thousand is the maxim of the communist. How else should we view them?

In the simplest terms, they’re taking advantage of patriotism to enact and enforce the most brutal domestic policy since Stalin. Everyone knows some local cop who they conflate to the aggregate of copdom, but one’s intimate knowledge of one cop, good or bad, doesn’t provide testimony as to the rest. Cops, like everyone else, might be completely decent when alone, but become another animal all together when in a group, especially if that group feels threatened. To expect cops to act differently than the average person is to credit them with a level of evolution from the ordinary man that simply doesn’t exist.

The criticism of democracy is that it’s a mobocracy; two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner. I heard, not long ago some irrelevant voice taking up the cause of “our democracy” and criticizing MAGA for it’s view of democracy as just that. “Imagine,” he breathlessly exhorted the audience, “thinking of our democracy as two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner.” Is it not? Though that quote is attributed often to Benjamin Franklin, there is some question as to the fact of that just as there was in the last post concerning Nathan Hale. It matters less who actually said it, than that it rings so completely true. There is nothing about a democracy that is anything other than the majority ruling over the minority and the division can be as slim as one vote. That’s no way to run a nation and why any thought of justice must include the demand for individual rights as a shield from the greatest excesses of government..........more.........