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Entry: Patriots, Not Haters Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/real_patriots_dont_hate#9679 Post contents: <i>I was under the impression that this site was a reliable source opinion [sic] untainted by liberalism [sic] - am I wrong about that?</i> It is a site untainted by Brownism, except 3 or 4 Stormfronters who use a variety of names to make themselves seem more numerous than the handful of cranks that they are. And the writebacker needs to learn what “liberalism” really means. An outstanding essay, and lacking in a “hidden teaching”, which abellio correctly saw in yesterday’s essay. Mr. Purcell’s essay is right to distinguish evil nationalism and racialism from good patriotism, a distinction that John Lukacs also made. How the Browns do rage when they are, correctly, equated with statists, Hamiltonian Whigs (“Neoconservatives”), New England Theocrats such as Wilson and Nurse Ratched Rodam, and Cultural Marxists, and when they are correctly identified as not being Real Conservatives! Taki and the editor are to be congratulated. I would make two further distinctions: Speaking as a Jeffersonian, I regard my <i>patria</i> NOT to be the one Lincoln founded by misinterpreting the Declaration and ignoring the Constitution. Mine was founded by Washington, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. Would than Yankeeland endorsed the real Founders and what they really said. The Founders also, in principle, delegitimized slavery and racialism. Speaking as a Burkean, my <i>patria</i> is Piedmont North Carolina, and extends, circle by circle to its limit: to places south of the Mason-Dixon line, the Ohio River, the Missouri River in Missouri state, and the Missouri compromise line out to the Black Mesa; and then direct south to the Rio Grande. That country includes Judah P. Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, H. K. Edgerton, and the Hispanics from north Florida and the Aboriginal People from Oklahoma who fought with the rest of us. Because of these two distinctions, the rest of the Lincolnlands have become alien to me. Still, men like Mr. Purcell are welcome in Dixie! An aside. Catholics and Protestants in the League of the South do and need to work together. Sent at: 2008 11 22