Last week, President Joe Biden said it's the patriotic duty of Americans to wear masks while outside.
Years ago, while campaigning as Barack Obama's running mate, he said it was patriotic to pay higher taxes.
Biden wakes up every morning in the White House - whether he knows it or not - but that doesn't give him the authority to define patriotism, nor to expect us to follow without question or dissent.
We also know that George Washington warned us to "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism," and Theodore Roosevelt said "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official."
Biden wants to use his version of patriotism as a blunt instrument to forward the agenda of the left, which supports the most unpatriotic ideas imaginable.
Now patriotism to the left means compliance with government authority, conformity of thought, sheepishly handing over private resources to politicians, and a wholesale surrender to economic central planners.
While we'll leave it to Americans to define patriotism for themselves, we will remind them what it isn't.
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/05/03/who-gets-to-define-whats-patriotic/
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