re: Get ready for lots of politics when sports open back up

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Are you trying to perform some sort of mental gymnastics here and making the inference that the left is more patriotic than the right? Or even patriotic at all?

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Neither side is "patriotic".

Patriotism:

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the quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one's country.

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Both sides are not really in support of their country, just themselves. A patriot doesn't whine about having to wear a mask, and act oppressed because because a local business asks people politely to wear one before coming in. A patriot doesn't destroy small businesses and people's homes because of injustices suffered from other groups. A patriot doesn't tell people they cannot protest peacefully or launch gas at peaceful protesters and a patriot doesn't protest violently towards those that afforded them no violence.

Today we are flooded with the sense that waving a flag around, or screaming at a person who disagrees with you, is "patriotic". It's not. It's no "more" or "less" patriotic to ignore the plight of others.

Patriotism is a false narrative these days, trumpeted by groups who don't do anything even remotely patriotic.