Pride in one’s country, pride in one’s people, history, ways, and beliefs, was a valuable resource to be exploited whenever the Carpetbaggers needed the yokels and suckers to sign up, line up, and go fight wars. When they needed blood, they called it Patriotism. However, let those same yokels and suckers try to express those feelings in ways that didn’t involve killing strangers, but rather sought to preserve and cultivate the strength, identity, and spirit of their homes, then The Powers That Be had The Talking Heads resurrect the specter of the long-dead Third Reich and trot out the clichéd
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