The Denition of American Patriotism (ca. 2013) | Common Dreams
"Consider, for example, the definition of “patriotism.” A self-described “patriot” in ’76 had qualities no longer patriotic. Paul Revere and Sam Adams were, for example, the least conservative guys on the block. They were bolsheviks ready to take up arms and overthrow the established order. They believed in elections and in representative, secular government whose power derived neither from bishops nor aristocrats nor kings, but from the people. They were geopolitical isolationists who opposed the creation of a permanent armed force."
