Howard Zinn is an American historian who espouses Marxism, communism and social democracy. He is, therefore, loved by the left. His continuous attacks on America and its rich history make him one of the many go to guys for leftists and America haters in general. Zinn is often quoted when it is necessary to show what a terrible country America really is. On this Fourth of July, this communist historian says that putting up the flag is a bad thing:
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
Is not nationalism — that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder — one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?
Isn’t love of America “one of the greatest evils of our time?”
OUTRAGEOUS!
This is the country that gives this moron the right to say such hateful and ignorant lines of garbage. Is it any wonder that the right believes that the left hates America? Look at the rhetoric. The level of hatred towards America is beyond staggering:
One of the effects of nationalist thinking is a loss of a sense of proportion. The killing of 2,300 people at Pearl Harbor becomes the justification for killing 240,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 3,000 people on Sept. 11 becomes the justification for killing tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
And nationalism is given a special virulence when it is said to be blessed by Providence. Today we have a president, invading two countries in four years, who announced on the campaign trail in 2004 that God speaks through him.
We need to refute the idea that our nation is different from, morally superior to, the other imperial powers of world history.
We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
America has a past to be proud of. While there are instances that we cannot, nor should, be proud of, the good outweighs the bad. Stand tall, America. Be proud. Your history is nothing to be ashamed of.
