I am sure there were many patriotic liberals in the 1950s. Today, not so much. Stevensons’s intellectual patriotism may have flourished in the late 50’s to the late 60’s, but it has since gone extinct. Today’s liberals, I’m sorry “progressives” as they would rather be called are academically dishonest. While conservative patriotism has always been in your face public displays, liberals have shrieked away from their own principles.

There is nothing unpatriotic about pointing out problems with your own country if they are in fact real problems. Fighting for woman’s rights and civil rights was patriotic. Blocking a military recruiting center is not patriotic. Nor was it patriotic for many Democrats to declare if Bush wins they are “going to Canada.”