Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Militarized patriotism IS politicizing something

Another militarized patriotism Veterans Day, including at Lifering. XXX posted something on the Lifering page about it and I posted what I have said before, that the US never should have entered World War 1, and within an hour, I was essentially steaming.

Good point? I recognized feeling angry at the moment, fully, for the first time in sobriety. And, no, I don’t think it’s a culmination of two family deaths, frying the engine on the cop car and an office physically falling down around me. I think it was this instance.

Rather, per Hume, this is a passion. It’s a passion about a leftist, not a liberal, stance on an issue. It’s also a passion about feeling unheard. That isn't new, but it's grown there recently. I think it’s also a passion about something else. That said, I can’t find Lifering posting stats like we had in the old Yahoo days.

That then said, I will admit having other tensions in recent weeks.

THAT then said, feeling unheard is something that has popped up for me in the past.