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Dr. Johnson famously called patriotism "the last resort of a scoundrel." My immediate reaction is to agree, and my more considered reaction is that, no, he was wrong, patriotism is the first resort of a scoundrel.
And here is a discouragingly common, cant expression: "My country, right or wrong." As if stupidity were a virtue.
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