The only shocking thing about this column is that a liberal was actually willing to say this out loud:
I don't love America. That's what conservatives are always telling liberals like me. Their love, they insist, is truer, deeper and more complete. Then liberals, like all people who are accused of not loving something, stammer, get defensive and try to have sex with America even though America will then accuse us of wanting it for its body and not its soul. When America gets like that, there's no winning.
But I've come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America more. Sure, we liberals claim that our love is deeper because we seek to improve the United States by pointing out its flaws. But calling your wife fat isn't love. True love is the blind belief that your child is the smartest, cutest, most charming person in the world, one you would gladly die for. I'm more in "like" with my country.
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What really struck me most isn't the admission that liberals don't really love the United States the way we conservatives do -- that we already knew, after all -- but the willingness to say so openly in the Los Angeles Times. (Of course, this is the columnist who wrote that he doesn't support the troops.) Liberals stammer, screech, and sputter with outrage if you ever, ever question their patriotism. But time and time again they give us reasons to, from blaming the United States for 9-11, to not supporting our troops, to sympathizing with our enemies, and idolizing men who exemplify everything that is anti-American, like Castro, Stalin, and liberals favorite hero, Che Guevara.
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Liberals look at America, and have a hard time feeling the love and patriotism that conservatives feel because they can't get get past the flaws. They can't love America unless she is perfect. Conservatives, however, don't require perfection to know that America is, indeed, a special, blessed place. It doesn't mean that the rest of the world is a terrible, terrible place. It doesn't mean that no one can possibly have a great life anywhere else. However, despite what many Little League coaches and PC teachers may believe, not every runner can finish the race in first, and while the rest of the world may be great, it's just not the USA.
I think that last paragraph nails it. Liberals are in love with an ideal, which can never be attained in real life. I've seen one sig file which begins, "I pledge allegiance to the Constitution..." suggested as an alternative to the salute of the American flag. The liberals who use this appear to me to be declearing allegiance to an ideal, which no country -- even the one whose Constitution it is -- has ever implemented to their liking. Or ever will.
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