Yeah I have noticed that and then those on the right try to compare the two as if they were the same and they are not.



Like it or not just because someone is a right wing conservative doesn't automatically make their behavior patriotic anymore than being a left wing liberal makes their behavior unpatriotic...



It is one of the more idiotic analogies to come from the right in years yet they love it.



I said on another thread that a society that thinks it needs to be armed to the teeth all the time is unhealthy and at least one called me stalinist for saying that but think about it...what is more healthy...



A society that is armed to the teeth and paranoid about everyone and everything



Or a society that is secure and comfortable enough about its place in the world that they don't feel the need to be so heavily armed?



I give you Canada...New Zeeland...Iceland...Norway and Sweden...Japan etc.



Whereas the United States has become a muddled armed paranoid mess.