Actually, I keep this thread bookmarked because the libs give me such a steady stream of anti-American material (dissentwank?), under the canard of expressing their "patriotism."

Don't get me wrong. As I said before, constructive criticism is fine. And nearly all forms of dissent are protected by Free Speech. As noted in another thread, for example, I may think people who burn the flag are hateful assholes but I strongly oppose efforts to ban flag burning.

However, for far too many of these "patriots" their ONLY form of patriotism is to attack and/or blame America first.