One of many apposite H.L. Mencken quotes:
“In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.”
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Very true.
Gary, I’ve been thinking a lot about patriotism lately, and this goes along perfectly with some of my own thoughts. I may need to use this in a post sometime in the near future.
Use whatever you wish, Lottie. Incidentally, both you and theunhappycamper would probably enjoy Menken’s collected pieces of journalism — the Mencken Chrestomathy, for example. He was a man ahead of his time