Allow an old man to vent for a minute - The ramblings of a patriotic old fart.

[Ken'sPen]

Patriotism is for morons.
I love this country, but not blindly.
I love the freedoms this country offers. The greatest are to speak out against it. To criticize it. Yet to do so riles up all the flag waving patriots to condemn me as anti american.
I was born an american with the same degree of self determination that made me be born, white, or male, or Epicopalian, or anyother aspect I had no control over.
So to wave a flag simply because I was born here seems a little hallow.
Or to proclaim every thing we do is right just because WE did it is stupid.

I love America, because it is ever evolving. The amendments to the constitution were made because people were able to find flaw with the job done by the founding fathers.
I think our nation is the greatest on the Earth,
Because I am not compelled to call it the greatest on the earth.