>>>/wsg/1132596 >listen to 2:30-2:40 If that doesn't

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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>>1292941
I would argue that Americans have unique and special grounds to be patriotic. Americans can and should be proud of their nation in a way that no other nation on Earth can be proud, because unlike all other nations, America was explicitly founded on a set of principles and ideals. We are a nation of ideas and dreams.

>>1292968
So are communist countries.

>>1292968
Not really, we were founded on irritation at paying high taxes and at expansion west being limited by Britain. No taxation without representation wasn't much more than a slogan

>>1292975
Commies want the abolishment of the state, and global unification of the underclass.

Doesn't seem that patriotic desu

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>>1292975
Not like America.

In fact, I'd argue that America exists less as a country with set boundaries and more as a concrete set of principles. Liberty, justice, equality, fairness, good sport, uprightness. These are ideals, not lines on a map. Insofar as any nation upholds those ideals, they ARE America. Insofar as nations fail to uphold those ideals, they are NOT America. Even the nation called the United States may not be America if it doesn't uphold American ideals.

That's what I believe, at least. America is a Platonic thing.

Always thought the Star Spangled Banner was a shit tier national anthem.

Britain, France & The Soviet Union's sound more powerful. More evocative.

>>1293063
Musically it's a disaster of a tune apparently, I'm no musician though.

>>1293063
no offence but that opinion is pretty crap, the Star Spanled Banner is hella evocative

I like it way more than my own cuntrees anthem.