KHpoliticalinnuendohere:

Ralph, I don't want to continue this slew of critical postings about your comments, but one part (your main point, I think) hit me:

And in order to defend the US, a citizen needs to love America.

The liberal strategy is defending the important part of the America, the ideals. The Conservative strategy seems to defend the land..... fine, the land is important too, but it won't be worth defending without those ideals. And that does leave us all less time to defend McDonald's, but McDonald's, honestly, can defend itself. Free market right?

Um, yes the Conservatives do also try to defend ideals, it's just different ideals.

Conservatives defend the ORIGINAL framers ideal of LESS GOVERNMENT and no strong federal, central power.

Liberals defend a more modern idea of MORE GOVERNMENT and strong, central federal power.

See, if you don't really understand what the other side is about, how can you really criticize it?