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kentuck

(111,052 posts)
Tue Jun 7, 2022, 06:49 AM Jun 2022

Patriots do not hide from the truth.

They do not fear information that is contrary to their present thinking.

Patriots that love their country want to know if their country is threatened.

Teddy Roosevelt is quoted as saying:

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”

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We should want to know all the facts about the attack upon our Capitol on January 6th.

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Patriots do not hide from the truth. (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2022 OP
That's an incredible quote and MAGAts would hardly comprehend it bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #1

bucolic_frolic

(43,044 posts)
1. That's an incredible quote and MAGAts would hardly comprehend it
Tue Jun 7, 2022, 07:01 AM
Jun 2022

TDFG couched the service to him as service to the country. And MAGAts believed it.

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