Coastal elites across America thumb their noses as small-town “hicks” and “rednecks”. This whole week, they have been stomping their feet and proclaiming loudly from their MacBook Air keyboards, “F#ck the Fourth”.
They are the educated ones who moved out of “po-dunk” (insert small-town name here) and into the big city or the suburbs. They are the ones who garden on weekends, talking to their plants and cats after attending the weekend protests, waving signs emblazoned with swastikas outside of car dealerships. They straighten their “In This House” lawn sign and retreat inside to watch MSNBC report on how f#cked-up our America is. They then text their friends to tell them how utterly upset they are at the Orange Voldemort President these “dumb rednecks elected”, how they “don’t feel patriotic” on this Forth of July because we are “on the brink of war” and “Trump is taking health care away”. All of this is just too much. They just need to vent.
To them, patriotism is a feeling and not a way of life. It’s like everything else in their realm of existence-a life based on feelings of the moment. Roger Kimball of American Greatness discusses this nuance of feelings of the moment versus the patriotism that should embody, and unite us as Americans. He cites Walter Bern’s Making Patriots to support his idea that small-toes patriotism should not be a thing of the past that gets squashed under the noise of present dissent:
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