I bet that the Libs are all bent out of shape due to the Bruins, the Celtics, and the Red Sox - Granite Grok

I bet that the Libs are all bent out of shape due to the Bruins, the Celtics, and the Red Sox

New Hampshire with American FlagJingoism:

Jingoism is fanatical, over-the-top patriotism.

For what seems to be forEVAH, we Conservatives hear from Libs that our feelings towards our country are jingoistic – over the top because we DO like this country and many of us love this country.  We love its traditions, we love the flag waving, we love singing one of the hardest national anthems in history, we love our patriotic holidays that include parades and singing – yeah, we love the USA as it is and for the Constitutional ideals that are supposed to undergird out lives, both in our personal and our political lives.

Libs seems to be very uncomfortable with these displays of patriotism – and why not?  They disagree with the notion of American Exceptionalism – many Progressives see nothing at all exceptional about America and even Obama kinda sneered at the idea that American Exceptionalism means anything at all (“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”).  Libs point to the failings of America, notably slavery, as being so immoral so as to discredit all other actions of the US (sorta like what Sheriff Scott Hillard tried to do to GraniteGrok when complaining about getting the uniform bit wrong but not disputing the major parts of the reporting); once a wrong has been done, these Libs act like my Eldest who can never forget OR forgive any slight, blemish, or wrong.  Some even want to go to the point of saying the Pledge at events is jingoism.  Yeah, these are the kinds of people that spit and denigrated Viet Nam vets when they came home as representing the worst of America.

Man, they must really go into apoplectic fits this past weekend as crowds all over, but especially in Boston and at the major Boston sports teams where the entire audience proudly, loudly, enthusiastically, and (almost) spontaneously broke out in song and chanting “USA!  USA!  USA!”

The closest to spontaneous was the Bruins game when Rene Rancourt stopped singing but urged the crowd to sing – and sing they did ( here for the Red Sox version):

Progs everywhere must be really slurping the Pepto-Bismol but as for me, if this is what jingoism is, hand me a pitch-pipe!

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