If you weren’t certain that civic nationalism is intrinsically cuckservative, you know better now.
“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil,” McCain said. “We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don’t. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve to.”
Do you know where a land made of ideals can be found? In Plato’s Theory of Forms. Do you know where it cannot be found? On this planet.
Bush’s version: “Our identity as a nation, and unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood. Being an American involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility.”
How very strange, then, that so many US citizens do not embrace those ideals or accept any civic responsibility. Doesn’t that mean they are not Americans? If a nation’s identity is not determined by geography, ethnicity, soil, or blood, that does not make it special, it makes it nonexistent.
“Bigotry in any form is blasphemy.”
– George W. Bush
“The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.”
– God
One wonders what god, exactly, is being blasphemed by bigotry.