Simple question: Do you love this country?

[Javaman]

I get choked up at the playing of the National Anthem. If given a real threat to this land I would be first to join it's defense.

I want clean air for our nation, clean water to drink, a good eduction for everyone, security in ones old age, health care for everyone one of us.

In short, the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, is something that I hold near and dear to my heart.

I will stand up to people that say protesting is unAmerican. Dissenting voices are what founded this great nation. The day we stop questioning and stop asking for the truth, is the day this nation dies.

The republicans have tried so hard to turn the word Liberal into the new four letter word. Liberalism is what founded this country.

So do I love this country? Damn straight I do.

I just had to get this off my chest. I just so tired of hearing that just because I'm a Liberal Democrat, that I don't love this nation.