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Originally Posted by longbough
Tell that to Maines of the Chicks who said, “The entire country may disagree with me, but I don’t understand the necessity for patriotism ... Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don’t see why people care about patriotism.”
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well to some extent she is right, not everybody has to be a patriot. There will always be a necessity for patriotism though, IMO. Just not the flag waving, redneck form of it that seems to be thriving in our country.
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