{"id":3018,"date":"2002-11-11T23:27:39","date_gmt":"2002-11-11T23:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2002-11-11T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2002-11-11T23:27:39","slug":"duuude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=3018","title":{"rendered":"DUUUDE…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ann Salisbury<\/a> and Jeff Cooper<\/a> want me to adjust my medication. They think that I am misreading the Democratic Party in my post below, and ask me (thoughtfully, as friends do) to step back and reconsider.
\nI need to do some homework; it\u0092ll take some time with Google and if I can get into it, Lexis. This is a crazy week, and I\u0092m going to try and go to Comdex for a day next week, so give me a few days for a concrete reply. But here\u0092s the deal.
\nI know a bunch of Democrats. I know people who run Democratic campaigns. I know people who are Democratic elected officials. They\u0092re my friends, and I love them, and genuinely believe they are trying to do good, and often succeeding.
\nEvery day, I read the L.A. Times, the Daily Breeze, and the Wall Street Journal cover to cover. I read CNN.com and all the blogs on my blogroll pretty much daily (all the ones with *\u0092s every day, and many others); I probably spend an hour or so a day reading. I subscribe to The Atlantic, Harper\u0092s, Granta, and Scientific American, along with a bunch of business, technology, and motorcycle magazines, and I read them all as soon as I get them. I pick up The Economist every other month.
\nI don\u0092t say this to make myself out as some kind of font of knowledge, but to say both that I\u0092ve got some direct knowledge and that I\u0092m a pretty voracious media consumer (with the exception of TV and talk radio), and I\u0092ll tell you now that when I think of Democratic patriotism, I still<\/u> somehow can\u0092t get the image of Michael Dukakis sitting in a M-1 Abrams out of my mind<\/i>.
\nThe \u0091brand impression\u0092 that I have of the Democratic Party includes many things; it includes compassion, justice, equality\u0085but it doesn\u0092t include patriotism.
\nThe very word \u0091patriotism\u0092 makes me cringe a little bit as I say it, and that\u0092s a problem<\/u>.
\nThis was triggered as I started to write an appreciation to all the American soldiers who had served. As I wrote, I started worrying about my phrasing. I was worried about being criticized for not qualifying my praise for the ones who had served in unjust wars, or who had somehow acted badly, or who had extended imperialism.
\nMaybe the folks I know are just a little to \u0091left\u0092 liberal. Maybe my filters, because of my personal history are just set in a certain way so I see that a little more.
\nMaybe this is a problem that exists only in my head.
\n\u0085or maybe not<\/u>. And if not \u0085 if I\u0092m right, and the anti-American left has managed to create the brand all liberals have to live with \u0085 then we liberals have a much bigger problem to deal with, and we’d better start dealing with it.
\nLet\u0092s dig a little and see.
\n(11\/12: fixed dumb error re Dukakis’ name, added some emphasis, cleaned up some grammar)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Salisbury and Jeff Cooper want me to adjust my medication. They think that I am misreading the Democratic Party in my post below, and ask me (thoughtfully, as friends do) to step back and reconsider. I need to do some homework; it\u0092ll take some time with Google and if I can get into it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}