Patriotism is a virtue

I haven't had anything meaningful to post, or time to post it, in a little while, but here's an interesting gem from the Z-man's post today, about going to an NFL game in Germany.

I edited it. He's traveling, and probably posting from his phone, so he has a higher than normal occurrence of typos. Plus, I cut some parts out of the selection I'm quoting.

The point of being in Frankfurt was to attend the NFL game. The city has embraced the NFL for some reason, so it is a good place for the league to hold games. There are social clubs all over for the different teams. It is not just a novelty for them. They have taken the time to learn the rules of the game and they now have youth leagues for football. Colleges now come to Germany to scout for players, mostly linemen. Germans feel a strong connection to the United States. There are a lot of Americans in Germany, so it makes sense that the biggest American sport would take root.

Just before the game, they played the American anthem. A female soldier performed it and by the time she was finished it was clear she was getting choked up. That was because the crowd was singing louder than her. It was one of those times when you are reminded that Americans are great people, even if our leaders are the worst people who regularly turn the virtue of patriotism into a vice. Patriotism is a virtue, and your fellow citizens, by and large, are good people.

I like it when the Z-man doesn't get too high on his own black pills and recognizes something good. Sometimes he doesn't do that often enough. Given how evil our leaders have been, it's probably quite fair for us to extend the same courtesy to the peoples of other countries who may not have the best leaders running their shows either. The Germans were, by and large, good people during World War II. General Patton specifically commented on that following the war. The Russians probably are, by and large, good people, even if nobody else is happy with what Russia is doing. The Ukrainians are probably by and large good people, who didn't vote for Zelensky, it should be noted, so his perfidy, corruption and the murder of thousands of ethnic Russians in the Donbas can't fairly be blamed on the Ukrainian nation as a whole. Etc., etc. Sure, sure. There are a lot of wicked people, and a lot of people who are not going to stand up for good behavior. I've quoted this before, and no doubt will again, from 2 Timothy.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

But even so, I find myself feeling sympathy for those led astray, because if it weren't the the manipulation of evil men teaching them to be other than they would be, they would probably be OK, if not necessarily actively righteous. I feel like there's a sense of the West having been taken advantage of because of our niceness, and been taught something other than what we'd otherwise be tended to do, much like the children of the Lamanites. And so I frequently find myself praying that the Lord will be merciful unto my people in spite of their open wickedness, because it's less open rebellion and more having been preyed upon by serial predators and sociopaths in literal league with Satan.

Which reminds me, I even extend that same consideration to the Jews. They've cultivated a tribal supremacist cult that teaches them that they're justified in exploiting the Gentiles for all their worth, but your average Joe Blow Jew on the Street probably doesn't actively hate the West and Christianity, or at least wouldn't if they weren't taught to by sociopathic radicals among their own kind for generations.

Ultimately, I think both the Jews and the Gentiles will be happier when the Jews who refuse to assimilate to America (or the West) go back to Israel where they belong, but that's not because I hate the Jews or the Jews hate me. We just don't mix very well because of incompatible cultural programing. Which is totally OK when peoples can have their own countries and not be gaslit and forced to say stupid things like "Diversity is our strength" because they can set up whatever culture works for them in their own country and practice it to their hearts' content without being meddled with by anyone else from outside.

At least that's the theory.