#p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows Uncivil Disobedience and the Opposite of Patriotism http://prospect.org/article/uncivil-disobedience-and-opposite-patriotism What the convervatives defending that Nevada rancher don't seem to understand. Back when George W. Bush was president, liberals were regularly accused of being disloyal or anti-American if they disagreed with the policies the administration was undertaking. As Bush himself said, you were either with us or with the terrorists, and as far as many of his supporters were concerned, "us" meant the Bush administration and everything they wanted to do, including invading Iraq. You may have noticed that now that there's a Democrat in the White House, conservatives no longer find disagreeing with the government's policies to be anti-American; in fact, the truest patriotism is now supposedly found among those whose hatred of the president, and the government more generally, burns white-hot in the core of their souls...