Originally Posted by jwb

Nah, it seems like a cop out to me.

Let's be clear.... It's a pattern I've specifically noted in the left. I haven't seen the same exact pattern on the right. Maybe it's out there, maybe it's not, I'm not going to go looking for an equivalent everytime I voice a criticism just to seem "fair." And you've yet to provide a real counter example. So I can't help but think..... You're just deflecting to turn the conversation away from criticism of the side you support.

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.