There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
Politicians like generals have a tendency to fight the last war.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are...
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
