Harper's Magazine, 1947
What is the new loyalty?
It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is – the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy.
It regards as particular heinous any challenge to what is called "the system of American enterprise," identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once-popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
It must be added, it is easily satisfied. For it wants not intellectual conviction nor spiritual conquest, but mere outward conformity. In matters of loyalty it takes the word, not the deed, the gesture for the principle...It assumes that every member of a liberal organization is a Communist, concludes that every member of a conservative one is a true American. It is designed neither to discover real disloyalty nor to foster true loyalty...
What do men know of loyalty who make a mockery of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, whose energies are dedicated to stirring up race and class hatreds, who would straight-jacket the American spirit?
What indeed do they know of America – the America of Sam Adams and Tom Paine...of Lincoln's celebration of labor, of Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience and Emerson's championship of John Brown...Who among them could meet their (loyalty) tests?...Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson who wrote that all men are created equal and whose motto was "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God...
Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips, who spoke for the underprivileged everywhere and considered himself a philosophical anarchist; not Seward of the Higher Law or Sumner of racial equality.
Not Lincoln, who admonished us to have malice toward none, or Wilson who warned that our flag was a "flag of liberty of opinion as well as political liberty...
Who are those who are really disloyal?
Those who inflame racial hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make a mockery of majority rule...Those who impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities...Those who frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials. Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly.
Those who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth. Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who for selfish and private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to the ruin of war...
But if our democracy is to flourish it must have criticism, if our government is to function it must have dissent. Only totalitarian governments insist upon conformity and they –as well as we know – do so at their peril. Without criticism abuses will go unrebuked; without dissent our dynamic system will become static.
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student who gave his shoes and clothes to a homeless man on the side of an interstate goes viral on TikTok
Lets give that snowfake hillbilly coco wanna be white some chones on cenral blvd I don't think it will go viral any where. IDIOTA
Who is it that inflames racial hatred and sow religious and class dissension. Could it be the Democrat Mayor of Chicago won't won't even take press questions from White reporters. How about the SQUAD who mouths anti-Semitism. Lets not forgot the entire Critical Race Theory bunch who brands as racist and unworthy the entire White race. How about the bog commentators who ridicule Meskins, Cocos, Gringos and Hillbillies. Those and many others are still with us low these many years.
No one inflames racial hatred more than Republican Donald J. Trump.
Hands down. No brainer.
Other Republicans: Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Steve King, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Mitch McConnell, El Paya Jerry McHale, etal.
Fact.
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Mesero! 🍻🍻🍻
ES UN POCO INCOMODO
PERO EL QUE NADA DEBE
NADA TEME😅
Y ES BUENO PARA LA POBLACIÓN MEXICANA❤️
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The Republican Party has been a cartel. And no one asks a cartel, ‘What’s your ideological purpose?’ You don’t ask OPEC, ‘What’s your ideology?’ You don’t ask a drug gang, ‘What’s your program?’ The Republicans exist for the pursuit of power for no purpose.
Trump lost.
Biden won!
Tal palo tal astilla nalgon
Will you continue with the trumps and their suggestion of arming all whites to fight the immigrants who they themselves are immigrants, of course not, why, because they're white and have a God given right to do so (so you think) pinche joto/a. So shut the f**k up....
So how about and lets not forget, are you going to comment about that person running for a position for CITY COMMISSIONER? Are you considering voting for that person, oooooh you already have! Righteous hillbilly racist republican and a COCO. What about and lets not forget the coco mayor, brings in gringos from Dallas where there is an abundant of qualified citizens here and some unemployed? Appoints this person as head of a very important city board with no knowledge and his only experience is being a floor sweeper!
Pick and choose is not the way to fix what's broken
The LGBTQs needs to go out and vote!
Jessica Puente Bradshaw should be told that she is not wanted - or needed - in Brownsville. Told again. Convincingly.
She is a political cancer on our community.
Her followers - or pushers - are worse.
Fact.
June 13, 2021 at 2:58 PM
MORON!
And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar
Spend it fast as I can
For a wailin' song and a good guitar
The only things that I understand, poor boy
The only things that I understand
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