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...Fair Districting Act” to stave off Tom DeLay’s gerrymandering program, or an “Anti-Misinformation Law” to keep the Pentagon from resuming its absurd project to deliberately mislead foreign journalists, or a “Corporate Patriotism?? bill to close the loophole that lets companies avoid billions in taxes by putting a home office in Bermuda, but this in itself is not sufficient. The real challenge for the Democratic Party, and its presidential candidates in particular, is to figure out how to reverse the Right’s stranglehold...
...year. War was long preached as an eventuality, and students only half-listened as rhetoric that first emphasized “regime change” shifted, only semantically, to a more benign emphasis on disarming Iraq and liberating its people. For those not silenced by challenges to their patriotism??less compelling on a Harvard campus that exiled ROTC almost 35 years ago—dissent was chilled by the possibility that Bush was not being deceitful, that Saddam did possess weapons of mass destruction and was cozy with al Qaeda...
Mark Twain, having been called a “traitor” for criticizing the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, derided what he called “monarchical patriotism??. He said: “The gospel of the monarchical patriotism is: ‘The King can do no wrong.’ We have adopted it with all its servility, with an unimportant change in the wording: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had: the individual’s right to oppose both...
...trying to capture centrist voters and remain immune from charges of lack of patriotism??defined as lack of support for the president’s agenda in wartime—Democrats have stifled the liberal ideas that once formed a clear, ideological platform strong enough to challenge conservative proposals. In this election, the Democrats presented no vision for America...
...first-years and sophomores, Army cadets attend weekly classes and physical training sessions, in addition to extras like marksmanship training. Raphael S. Cohen ’04, who says he joined Army ROTC for “patriotism?? and the “leadership experience,” spends about five hours a week...