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...sons of immigrants and we love this country. We wrote The True Patriot because we believe that over recent decades, the idea of patriotism has been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left...
What's promising about this election is that we have two presidential candidates whose biographies are parables of patriotism and who will be debating differing ideas of patriotism. But in the end, that is not enough. What's necessary, this season and well beyond, is for all of us to have these debates and for each of us to figure out for ourselves what choices - large and small, today and tomorrow - we can make to earn the title "true patriot...
What we need going forward is third-way patriotism, a new patriotism that blends the faith of our fathers with, as Lincoln said, the unfinished work remaining before us. That new patriotism, as Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer write in The True Patriot, means "appreciating not only what is great about our country but also what it takes to create and sustain greatness." That formulation is what this campaign should be about: defining America's course in the 21st century. The candidates may have different views on what makes us proud to be Americans, but they share a belief...
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...good citizen and patriot knows happiness is greater than comfort, more sublime than pleasure. The cynical and indifferent know not what they miss. For their mistake is an impediment not only to our progress as a civilization but to their happiness as individuals...