Reading notes

It’s dangerously naive to believe that such a gang, coming to power in such a fashion, will allow a legitimate electoral contest to take place next year. They have too much to lose. They haven’t expended so much effort — and so many thousands of innocent lives — to build this vast engine of repression and profit only to turn it over to Howard Dean or John Kerry, just because the stupid American people say so.

A pessimistic view about the U.S. future, to be sure. But Floyd is right on the mark with the term false patriotism, which is what nearly all right-wing “patriotic” bullsh*t qualifies as. It’s not even close to real patriotism when you say “support our leaders no questions asked (or else)”; it is in fact real patriotism’s opposite.