The second mode is shamanistic incantation. Demeaning the world as it is begins the creation of a fictional counterworld. This proportion is so high that it makes the correct assertions seem like unintended oversights on the path toward total fiction. One attempt during the 2016 campaign to track his utterances found that 78 percent of his factual claims were false. The president does this at a high rate and at a fast pace. The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. “As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century The point is that patriotism involves serving your own country. The point is not that Russia and America must be enemies. It is not patriotic to appoint as secretary of state an oilman with Russian financial interests who is the director of a Russian-American energy company and has received the “Order of Friendship” from Putin. It is not patriotic to appoint a national security adviser who has taken money from a Russian propaganda organ.
It is not patriotic to read a foreign policy speech written by someone on the payroll of a Russian energy company.
It is not patriotic to solicit foreign policy advice from someone who owns shares in a Russian energy company. It is not patriotic to share an adviser with Russian oligarchs. It is not patriotic to cite Russian propaganda at rallies. It is not patriotic to call upon Russia to intervene in an American presidential election. It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one’s own presidential campaign, and then to spend their contributions in one’s own companies. It is not patriotic to avoid paying taxes, especially when American working families do pay. It is not patriotic to compare one’s search for sexual partners in New York with the military service in Vietnam that one has dodged. It is not patriotic to discriminate against active-duty members of the armed forces in one’s companies, or to campaign to keep disabled veterans away from one’s property.
It is not patriotic to dodge the draft and to mock war heroes and their families. “What is patriotism? Let us begin with what patriotism is not.
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