New Yorker Magazine Denounces Patriotism as Problematic

Elitist liberals are at their most insufferable on the pages of The New Yorker, so this is just the publication to call attention to American patriotism being “problematic.” This it accomplishes in a brutally long article consisting of denunciations of America, sputtering hatred of Donald Trump, and weaponized cynicism.

Crows author Arthur Krystal:

A Gallup poll found that, in the past dozen years, the percentage of people in the U.S. who say that they’re “extremely proud to be American” has plunged by sixteen points. A recent Harris poll noted that roughly four in ten Americans have considered relocating outside the country, with younger Americans even more inclined.

This Krystal ascribes to Trump. True enough, it is a result of moonbats being unpatriotic enough to abandon their own country because they lost an election.

Patriotism just isn’t cool anymore.

Liberals reserve to themselves the right to determine what is cool.

Wokeness, having rightly called attention to racial and gender injustices long endemic to American life, helped chill the left’s admiration for the nation, while its clumsier performances (cancellations, cultural-appropriation scolds, and other exercises in finger-wagging) pushed centrists to the right.

The blind squirrel has found another nut. Progressives have become so repugnant that they drive moderates to the right.

Celebrations honoring the USA’s 250th birthday will not sit well in the bellies of New Yorker moonbats:

According to america250.org, the Semiquincentennial is meant to be “the largest anniversary observance in our nation’s history.” Whether it will outdo the Bicentennial remains to be seen, but, given the White House’s current occupant, I’m bracing for an excess of foolish excess.

He quotes Frederick Douglass from an 1852 speech entitled, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”:

“To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy.”

Once again blacks and other minority races are exploited to attack our love of country:

Ours is a complicated history, made more tortuous by race. Some five hundred Indigenous nations lived here before the first enslaved Africans arrived, in 1619—a year before the first Pilgrims. That, too, is American history, along with Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the Great Migration, Black anger, [yadda yadda yadda].

Patriotism pinches a nerve with moonbats. This is another way patriots have of knowing they are on the right track.

On a tip from abcanc.

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