I honestly cannot understand patriotards. They make no sense at all to me. In order to be a patriotard, you have to believe that your government never does anything bad or evil. How could anyone believe that?
What I am people like me are doing is pointing out the evil stuff that my country is doing. I am not doing to say how much I hate the country, which is a dumb argument anyway. For the record anyway, I hate almost all of the West. All of the Western governments are pretty much evil. I do not think any of them are any good. And I do not like most other governments either.
I hate to sound like a Libertarian, but it seems like almost all governments do some really slimy, sleazy and evil stuff. I realize the solution to that is the Libertarian one, to get rid of the state, but that won’t fix anything. First of all, one of the main reasons that states act so evil is because their foreign policy is to act in benefit of the capitalists who run the economy. So the capitalists are pretty much ordering these states to do all this evil stuff. Because at the end of the day, the capitalists and the state are the same under capitalism. Just read Marx or Lenin, and this is absolutely clear.
The CIA is the armed to the teeth intelligence force of the US corporations. The Pentagon is the ultra armed-to the-teeth militia of the US corporations and the US rich. The US military is their private army. The task of the US military and the CIA is to run around the world doing all sorts of ugly and nasty things for the sole benefit of the 1% of the US and the US corporations.
If you are not a wealthy elitist or you don’t run a corporation, why would you support such a thing? It’s not like what they are doing is to benefit you. Come to think of it, if you are not rich and don’t own a corporation, why would you support the US military? After all, it’s just the private militia of George Soros, Mitt Romney, the Carlyle Group, Halliburton, Chevron and ATT. Why would anyone put on a uniform and go risk their ass to fight for a bunch of slimeballs and nasty corporations like that. You are going to go overseas and kill people for Goldman Sachs? You will fight, get hurt or be killed for Bank of America? Why would anyone do that? Come to think of it, why would anyone “support the troops”? What’s go good about “the troops?”
So anyway people like me are simply pointing out that our government does some really evil stuff. That makes us mad, probably because we love our country and do not want to see it doing bad stuff. So we are rubbing the American dog’s face in the mess it shit on the floor so to speak. What do we want? We want our country to knock it off! We request that we stop doing this evil things. How does that make us America-haters?
Furthermore, why do I have to leave? Anyone who points out that their government does evil shit has to leave? Why? How bout we take this line around the world. Anyone, in any country, who points out that their government does evil shit has to leave the country? Because the only people who are allowed to stay in any country are those who say the government never does any evil shit?
Why does everyone have to be happy with their country? Honestly, I doubt if I would be happy with any country I lived in. I would probably hate the government because I really dislike most governments. As far as the country itself, I am not sure. I might like some of the populations. But for a lot of countries in the world, if I were living there, I would look around at the citizens of my land and say, “You know what? These people suck.”
Looking around the world from a First World Country, it is obvious that most countries in the world blow. You would think most people who live in these countries would have figured that out by now. So, everyone who isn’t wild about their government or their country has to take off? You realize we are talking about maybe 4 billion people here? Why do they have to leave? Where are they supposed to go?
What is the mindset of the patriotard? My country never does anything bad? Everything we do is sweetness, good and light? Is that honestly what they think?
Patriotards always think they live in a great country. American patriotards are rather unique because I believe 80-85% of them believe that they actually live in the greatest country in the world, which seems like a weird thing to believe. I have even met US Marxists who firmly believe this. Why do we have to be a great country? What would happen if we were not a great country?