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YOU'LL NEVER GUESS JUST WHO HAPPENS TO BE THE MOST HARD-WIRED SPECIMENS OF TRUE PATRIOT LOVE IN ALL THY SONS COMMAND across the "morally superior" United States, and especially so considering where this is an election year for a number of Constitutional Offices.

As in the kind of True Patriot Love:

• which sees America as being, not unlike Imperial China in its death throes under the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Divinely-Ordained Centre of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies, not to mention Portal and Gateway to Heaven;
• which excuses all manner of xenophobically lurid excesses "if and when required," not unlike Nazi Germany and, to a lesser degree, apartheid South Africa;
• which requires appealing to said feelings of True Patriot Love if and when required to accept all manner of sacrifices "in the greater national interest;"
• which expects said Patriot Love to be displayed if and when circumstances require this, and never mind such tending to the obnoxiously garish or ostentatious;
• which sees "national and racial heritage" (especially so the "European-American" model) to be intertwined and interlocked with said Patriot Love; and
• which justifies "whatever means necessary," no matter how vile, loathsome, filthy or disgusting they may be (even if the use of force, intimidation, fear or violence are called for), to so promote--which, in extreme cases, may require acts of self-slaughter "to save Our Beloved Nation from further harm" not unlike Imperial Japan @ the depths of fanatical crudity.

As it turns out, perhaps the most fanatically hard-wired specimens of such overzealous "patriotism" as above, IMHO, are such from the ranks of "poor white trash," using their poverty, fecundity and stupidity as cover for the most fanatically depraved, and @ once arrogant, displays of patriotism known in an otherwise "morally superior" society.

Not to mention using "racial honour and integrity" as a show of arrogance weighted with hubris as cover for their own inferior status in what they regard to be a "superior" and "master" race above all others, to be thus seen as "inferior" or, in extreme cases (especially so blacks and Arabs) "sub-humans."

This notwithstanding these overzealous examples of patriotic arrogance having as common denominators their being:

• poor;
• undereducated or even homeschooled;
• easily influenced by extreme or otherwise misguided elements (in particular "patriot" groups, racist/white-supremacist causes and even specimens of Fundamentalist/Primitive Christianity as are among the lowest examples of the Low Church stylee known);
• coming, for the most part, from dysfunctional or otherwise "broken home" backgrounds with episodes of alcoholism, unstable or limited employment, spousal or child abuse, frequent relocation throughout the country and even episodes of incest as an agency of coercion or control;
• ingrained Fundamentalist/Primitive religiopolitical influences as explains a general unwillingness to accept any type of welfare or charity, fearing such will "promote dependency" (in other words, an attitude of "the Lord will provide" which risks serious mental and/or emotional derangement in the right circumstances);
• possible undiagnosed mental or psychoemotional disorders as a byproduct of such an upbringing;
• resident in socioeconomic backwaters of poverty, fecundity and stupidity, perhaps deliberate, for generations (with clear and present danger of inbreeding);
• lack of a proper education translating to an inability to find or otherwise hold down a steady and stable job; and
• limited and limiting consumer purchasing power thanks to their limited earnings potential, in turn limiting their shopping habits to the likes of Wally World and even "dollar stores" selling what may, in the long run, turn out being overpriced, second-quality merchandise.

Combine these all, and you have perhaps the most retrograde species of "patriot" known to exist.

The kind which can be easily manipulated like a pull-string toy into parroting out cheap platitudes in bumper-sticker-slogan form and stylee, and in a fantical-sounding tone and nuance which their unseen masters expect.

None other than "poor white trash" in their hard-wired fanaticism as much as their "cultural heritage" rooted in poverty, fecundity and stupidity deliberate. Not to mention the obligatory dose of Low Church religiopolitical fanaticism, as required.

As James Boswell reminds us in his Life of Samuel Johnson, "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."