Needed Time

Too many Americans hate America. Perhaps for some it is merely an affectation, vanity posing as a too, too precious conscience. In any case this lethal prion of self-loathing eats away at our national will to survive. Can we alone of all nations, of all generations in recorded history, afford to reflexively revile ourselves? “Yes,” goes the smug, preening murmur, “self reproach is a testament to our superiority, it demonstrates our finely tuned intellect, our meticulous ethical sense.” Incessant scab-picking is apparently a sign of heroic virtue.

The rest of us must cease to tolerate this bile. It is no credit to our society, it is not “our greatest strength” as we so often hear these raucus peacocks proclaim. Americans who hate America must be shunned, discredited and rejected. Scorn publicly their neurotic gnawing of tongues over America’s sins and flaws. We cannot afford to indulge their snot-nosed cynicism and nascent violence, or their narcissism, which grows increasingly morbid and dangerous. Patriotism has been redefined as narrowness, as nationalism that stands in the way of the glorious planetary future of humanity. That is why too many Americans hate America and that is why they must be shunned.

It is dangerous folly to leave this infection untreated. We must isolate and cauterize with scorn and disgust these shallow ingrates, cut them off as the stinking mass they truly are. We must not allow America to die of gangrene.