Reply #99: It's a combination of insecurity, ego, and unquestioning years of propaganda. [View All]

people like the one you responded to are probably young enough that they don't remember a more balanced pre-Reagan America. They've been marinating in Nationalistic propaganda since birth. They've been taught that any criticism against their Nation is an attack against THEM PERSONALLY - though they are free to attack the government and all government institutions except the military at any time. Apparently the system of government that America was founded on has nothing to do with the Country itself. The Country is themselves and the military, nothing more. It doesn't even occur to them that wealthy corporate owning individuals are manipulating and using them in the guise of "patriotism"; or that they have become happy foot soldiers for the further enrichment of the uber rich by allowing everything in that article to happen.