Patriotism: Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country; Concern for the common good of one's political system.
I hear a lot of conservatives brag about how patriotic they are, they have handles like “Real American”, they plaster their trucks with every flag decal they can find, have their made in china flags flying from their front porch year around, scream “USA, USA” at nearly every sporting event and war and tell anyone who isn’t just like them that they “hate America” but that’s about as far as their devotion to country goes. Their patriotism has limits and conditions attached to it, they only love the President when it’s one of theirs and then he can do no wrong. They praise democracy and claim they want to spread it around the world but threaten to circumvent our democracy and political process when they get voted out of office. They say this president will take away their rights and freedoms while at the same time plotting to take away the rights and freedoms of others the instant they get in power.
Senators like Jim DeMint came right out and said they were conspiring to destroy a United States President, which is treason no mater how you slice it. They hate paying taxes or doing anything else for the common good of the country they only care about themselves.
Senator Kyle wants to make sure his and Fox’s right to lie is protected under Freedom of Speech (yes that is what he said on national TV when asked about a lie he was caught in about health care) yet when they are in power they want liberals arrested for telling the truth, I have heard Hannity and Oriely say numerous times that “all those liberal journalists should be rounded up and thrown in prison” when journalists exposed the lies told by the Bush administration that lead to the Iraq war. But of course the Fox bunch is acting like the victims now aren’t they.
It seems to be the same thing with civil liberties, you scream about your liberties all day long yet you hate the organization that was founded to protect those civil liberties, They American Civil Liberties Union, oh that is until you feel yours have been violated then they are the first people you call, RUSH I’m speaking to you!!! And they hate civil liberties anyway, they love being able to spy on other Americans to see if they are “American” enough. They love telling you who you can marry, who you can sleep with, what you can smoke, which books you can read (banning them from libraries and in some cases burning them when they don’t fit their twisted version of reality). Not one of them said a word when Bush shoved the Patriot Act down our throat over night without letting anyone read it first. That was the largest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal and not since the internment camps of WWII had we seen such a loss of civil liberties. Because that’s all conservatives are about is the WORD “patriotism” they know nothing of it’s true meaning, it’s all for show with them.
This whole states rights thing is hilarious, as with everything else they only want the states to have the rights when it comes to things they want, gun laws and abortion laws but when a state like California tries to pass medical marijuana or gay marriage they want the feds to step in and make laws banning them.
So they hate democracy, they hate the Government, they hate the other political parties, they hate the ethnic minorities, they hate blue states, they hate states rights, they hate Native Americans, they hate our neighbors to the North and South, they hate civil liberties, they want multinational corporations run by foreigners to have the same rights as you and I. So just what is it they “love” about this country so much if they hate everything about America? Maybe what they love is that our country allows them to be greedy and selfish because everything they want revolves around THEM and no one else. It’s “I have mine and screw everyone else”. Maybe what they love is how they have perverted our political system with money to the point our founding fathers wouldn’t even recognize it, making it easy for them to manipulate. This isn’t a Democracy anymore, when money became included in freedom of speech that allowed one man or a small group of men to literally buy politicians and the debate rages in the Supreme Court as we speak over Corporate Personhood, with the conservatives standing on the side of Multinational Corporations where they always are and they Liberals on the side of the American people.
When I say I love this country I mean I love what our founding fathers intended it to be not what the Conservatives have tried to turn it into with their greed and bigotry. When I pay my taxes I want them to help the nation out as a whole and I am smart enough to understand that includes me. I love this country because we have a political system that won’t allow groups like the Conservative movement to take complete control, and they hate that with a passion. What they want has nothing to do with a democracy, what they want resembles some sort of corporate theocracy where they don’t have to have a competing ideology to run against, where we will all be back working for the company store and living in the company house and praying at the company church. They don’t want capitalism either, capitalism is fair competition and fair competition without them being able to buy politicians off all these years would have put many of their monopolies like energy and insurance at risk of being cut down to size.
The only thing I can see I don’t like about this country is Conservatives, they are the problem. They hate all of our news but fox, they hate our neighbors Canada and Mexico, they hate over half the population, they hate our government, they hate our secularism, they hate our State parks, they hate the environment, they hate the redwoods, they hate liberals, they hate libertarians, they hate blacks, they hates Mexicans, they hate Native Americans, they hate American workers, they hate Unions which were uniquely American, they hate EVERYTHING about this country except telling us how much they love this country. The conservative movement is a cancer and if we allow it to spread it will kill the host. They are only about greed and propaganda, they have no substance and no solutions, the conservative leadership would sell this country out to the highest bidder in a second and leave their clueless followers as slaves for the new owners.
that's some funny stuff! 
