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When, and only when America conforms to my own, personal, subjective (which I see as objective) value system, will I give it my love and obedience.\u00a0 But my support for America or celebration of America, like all realities and truths, centers around me, only me.\u00a0 What I want.\u00a0 What I believe.\u00a0 Until it does so, I reserve the right to dismiss any loyalty to any celebration or affirmation of America.\u00a0 Until it conforms to me. <\/p>\n

The irony, of course, is that Jane Kim can do just what she is doing<\/a>.\u00a0 Not because America has existed perfectly only in some abstract spiritual realm of unrealized liberal ideals, but because it has been a real, solid, material bastion of the very freedoms that allow her \u2013 now, here, at this time \u2013 do refuse to say a pledge to that same country.\u00a0 Such is the post-modern mind that it never seems to grasp that, or feel it is something worth celebrating, or supporting,\u00a0in the here and now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"