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Oscar Wilde was wrong. America went from barbarism to decadence with an intervening period of multiculturalism.

Posted by Gagdad Bob at November 8, 2009 7:26 AM

Well, yeah, especially when the person "hating one’s country" happens to be the President of one's country.

Posted by JBean at November 8, 2009 8:16 AM

Wicked? Warped?

All revolutions require revolting activities.

Posted by Robert at November 8, 2009 8:56 AM

Thanks for the link. I would seem wiser to myself had I not made a gross grammatical error in that statement.

A majority "has," not "have." Sigh.

[Well, the watch my magic powers here. -- ed]

Posted by RC2 at November 8, 2009 6:22 PM

Orwell-
Since about 1930 everyone describable as an 'intellectual' has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order. Necessarily so, because society as it was constituted had no room for him.
A marked characteristic of the English left-wing intelligentsia is the emotional shallowness of people who live in a world of ideas and have little contact with physical reality. In the general patriotism of the country they form a sort of island of dissident thought. England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse
racing to suet puddings.

Eric Hoffer-
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

von Hayek-
It is merely a question of time until the views held by intellectuals become the governing force in politics.

Posted by james wilson at November 9, 2009 9:50 AM