Do you consider yourself a “solid liberal”? Do you think of yourself as a “typical American”? Are you proud to be an American?
I’d answer a yes to each question, although reserving the right to explain and qualify each answer. But, my experience with reading comments on this and other progressive blogs has been a kind of visceral distaste for American pride. I think progressives are this country’s harshest and least forgiving critics. And I think this is related to what I always harp on, which is the tendency of progressives to bunker down in a kind of permanent countercultural anti-Establishment mentality that makes others mistrustful of our ability to lead.
Sorry, I said it.
