Do you find Blind Patriotism scary

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Ah, this thread reminds me of how, in the early-mid 2000's, conservatives would call anyone that criticized the wars or Bush a traitor.

Good times.

Which always begs for what Hermann Goering said to Gustave Gilbert at Nuremberg:

Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.[…] That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.