There are many times I feel proud, and deeply fortunate, to live in the USA in 2014. There are many times when I cringe at the ways some use 'proud to be an American' as a bludgeon to silence others (a very unAmerican objective) or to stand up for positions the framers or most Americans today would find offensive and not part of what being American means to us. And we know there can be a fine line between loving our homes and destructive nationalism.
Why, for instance, do those who repeat 'freedom ain't free' in place of actual listening and thinking not then see paying our taxes as an essential contribution to our freedom? And why can't we, the nation of immigrants, do the right thing on immigration?
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