The patriotism problem is very real, and very relevant.

Too many Leftist elites are looking for Unreal Perfection and, in not finding it in real America, are claiming ... Bush is bad. Or claimed that Reagan was bad... or that Nixon was bad (I voted Jimmy C because Ford pardoned Nixon; never for a Dem since, most Libertarians).

Elites have long hated capitalism, and with a special destructive envy against the rich -- "social justice" is an attempt to rationalize taxing the rich more. Whether it really helps the working poor or not, the poor are used as an excuse to punish the rich.

Patriots compare the real America with other real countries, whether Myanmar/ Burma, or Sweden, or China, or France, or Iraq, or Sudan.

Recently, Stanford's Prof. Zimbardo (of the Prison Experiment, 1971), wrote about evil. In his Stanford Mag interview he discussed: America's Abu Ghraib, Israeli lobbyists, and Hitler. A good example of a basically "America is evil" undercurrent message.

Hitler is the main evil that Leftists accept -- with little mention of our alliance with the Evil Empire's Stalin in order to stop Hitler; but WW II was before I was born.

In 1973, Nixon "won" the Vietnam war with the Paris Peace Accords. But then in 1974 the Dem Party Congress voted to stop any US troops from returning, for any reason; and in 1975 reduced funding for the corrupt, incompetent, and cowardly S. Vietnamese democracy, full of US allies who supported human rights. The USSR continued to fund N. Viet commie aggressors who attacked, in violation of their written but unenforced treaty, and did win the Vietnam war. And proceeded to kill thousands of those who had surrendered.

China was funding Cambodian commies and there was no America stopping Pol Pot.
Thanks Dem Party, thanks Zimbardo, for opposing the fight against evil communism.

Who is responsible for the Killing Fields -- the worst genocide in MY lifetime?

Beard, you want to know what Bush has done right?
1) Bush liberated Afghanistan.
2) Bush liberated Iraq -- look at at Iraqi Kurdistan for what his "plan" for post-Saddam Iraq was, "letting freedom ring" and letting the Iraqis develop on their own.
3) Bush has supported pro-life justices to the US SC. A couple more and the terrible, culture-destroying Federal power grabbing Roe decision might well be overturned, returning some power to the states. (Allowing diversity?!)
4) Bush has supported tax-cuts.

Tax cuts has resulted in the rich corporations getting so much richer that they've hired MORE Americans, and especially more Americans willing to work.

Rich employers who offer jobs -- money for work -- do far more to support "social justice", as well as to truly empower the people, than the social worker 'dependency pushers'. (Perhaps those who really want to help the poor should start a business and offer the poor jobs?)

On falsifiability, please try to find out how many girls, as compared to boys, got perfect 800 scores on the math SAT tests. If there is a significantly greater number of boys, Larry Summers was fully justified in suggesting a difference.

“In the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are, in fact, lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.”

(why didn't you get the quote right, and look it up? Lazy AND Inaccurate Leftist). In the same Debra Sanders SF Chronicle piece

she note the Leftist support of Ward Churchill, who wrote about "little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the Twin Towers."

Many Politically Correct, intolerant Leftists, hate real America, hate success, hate Bush, and all too many hate Jews.