Originally Posted by Xurtio

America is a country, it doesn't have concerns. I was talking about the mainstream Democratic party. They seem to be immune to embarrassment in this context*

*not an argument for the GOP not having similar hangups

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.