As a good friend said of the GOP staging of the reading of the Constitution, “They draw near the Constitution with their lips, and with their mouths they do honor it, but their hearts are far from it.”
During the 2008 Presidential election President Obama was attacked by the right-wing talking heads because he wasn’t wearing a US Flag on his lapel. He wasn’t being very patriotic. For a few very short months all the FOX PAC personalities proudly wore the US flag on their lapels, but soon nothing could be seen there any longer. Now we read the Constitution to prove how much we love America. And if you don’t think it was wonderful then you’re not very patriotic.
The conservative right in this country is moving dangerously close to patriotic idolatry.
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