Thursday, July 4, 2019

Progressive Patriotism for July 4

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/04/progressive-patriotism-july-4?fbclid=IwAR1BY3l_hHaIDNKLsqpwYDS8FiGHdIvUX9_ILxmb_aaCj76osDvRewkOrFw
"Trump’s nativism, xenophobia, racism, selfishness, materialism, and faux patriotism would have appalled Francis Bellamy. Trump may want to require American schoolchildren to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but his vision of America is a far cry from Bellamy’s – or any progressive who fights to push the country to live up to its ideals."