WHAT THE ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS OF HYPERCONSERVATISM would think of the following:

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In any case, Mein Innkeeper Friend recalled where, some years back, he asked a service club's members to think for themselves who between these two choices was "the real patriot:"

• The soldier serving his country for a supposed defence of democracy and liberty, willing to sacrifice life or limb if need be; or
• The college or high-school student expressing his/her opposition to what may actually be an unpopular or otherwise misguided war.

This never mind the almost-constant pronouncements of Fox Prolefeed and other bastions of conservative propaganda claiming their entitlement to a Sole and Exclusive Monopoly on Patriot Love Made Manifest.

Come to think of it, there are many innumerable possibilities in this vein worth asking--and for which the answer should be thought out carefully, without giving needlessly to emotion or insincerity.

I can think of a few right here:

• The businessman who treats his workers fairly and honestly, with due regard for their welfare and workplace ... or the businessman whose sole interest is profit above all else.
• The farmer who produces the biggest yields @ the lowest cost, with due regard for the land and environment ... or the farmer simply content with producing the biggest yields.
• The motorist who shows due regard for fuel economy and the environment, using public transportation or riding bicycle instead from time to time ... or the motorist who sees driving as one with "Americanism."
• The consumer interested in getting value for money based solely on price ... or the consumer interested in getting value for money in more ways than price alone.
• The blogger who is brainwashed, as it were, to blindly follow hard-wired beliefs in their reportage ... or the blogger who accepts truth as more important than ideological subservience.
• The consumer who boycotts certain businesses out of conscience  ... or the consumer who boycotts because he's blindly following the appeals of certain groups who sponsor, or otherwise call for, said boycotts based on potentially dubious arguments.
• The broadcaster who offers worthwhile programming out of good business practice ... or the broadcaster who offers worthwhile programming just to appease certain special-interest groups whose agenda may really be against public interest.
• The businessman who honours all warranties and guarantees as advertised out of good business practice ... or the businessman challenging accepted business practice just to score points with what may be a misguided agenda.
• The cosmopolitan, who believes that "it's a small world, after all" ... or the bigot, who sees America as The World, and vice versa.
• The mother who chooses an abortion out of conscience, or because of medical advice ... or the mother who avoids abortions because of a hard-wired Zealotry and True Belief in "national and racial duty" justifying larger families.
• The parents who prefer to send their children to public schools for the sake of their children developing Healthy Social Interaction ... or the parents who homeschool their children @ the cost of social isolation, usually because of misguided religiopolitical Zealotry and True Belief--and all the while unaware of the possible consequences.
• The innkeeper who offers travellers only what they really need ... or the innkeeper who offers travellers all manner of unnecessary or otherwise frivolous amenities based on a warped belief that such is what travellers "really want or need."
• He who sees thrift and self-reliance as all the more important ... or he who sees wasteful and frivolous shopping as all the more important.

In offering these choices, I hope you will think carefully of your answers before you offer an answer, particularly so in the comments section.

Giving in to emotions and latent prejudices may only be disastrous.

"Think about it."