Patriotism is running rampant this week.
On Friday a pilot on American Airlines had to threaten Trump fans--"I'll dump you in Kansas, I don't care"--if they didn't stop yelling "USA!" on his flight from Washington, D.C., to Phoenix.
One of the Trumpniks countered, "I thought this was AMERICAN Airlines!"
Arnold Schwarzenegger posted on Facebook a saccharine video in which he sits between two flags and repeatedly calls the USA "America" (ignoring the existence of other Americas--South America, Central and North America).
He hugs the sword he carried in his 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. That scene is too macho for my taste.
I smell a male ego, similar to those on display as guys crawled up the walls of the Capitol Building and pranced through the Rotunda waving the name placard from Speaker Pelosi's door.
Maybe Arnold's super-male, super-patriotic video is the only way to reach the Proud Boys--by being more chauvinist and flag-waving than these 12-year-olds.
I applaud the governor's willingness to share from his own childhood experience in post-war Germany, surrounded by defeated, drunken, abusive men nursing deflated egos.
And I do appreciate his insight that Trump & Co. inflicted on the US a Kristallnacht of our own in 2021.
But this video and all the "This is not America!" comments are disgusting to me.
Yes, electing dt and enabling him to lead an insurrection is what we have done.
Thank God for the sane voters, many of them Black, who took back our country on November 3 and defeated Mitch McConnell on January 5 in Georgia.
They are the true patriots, and they don't go around waving swords.
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