Presidential Proclamation -- Loyalty Day, 2012 | The White House:
President Obama declared May First to be 'Loyalty Day'. May First, the International Workers' Day, the day that celebrates communism and all it's done for us. It's now 'Loyalty Day'. As with most everything written for Obama, it has the added charm of being impenetrable fluff. People defend the country and also community organize. Our country has struggled 'against threats from within and without'. There's no there there. It's the intellectual equivalent of fragmented sentences, phrases with the added charm of being meaningless. Sure, it equates fighting for your country with making sure people are properly enfranchised but I don't see where 'loyalty' comes into it. Back in the 1950s, liberals went insane over 'loyalty oaths', statements that teachers and bureaucrats had to sign saying they weren't going to support foreign foes. It was a stupid idea; people committing treason wouldn't have a problem signing it and people concerned about civil liberties which our enemies are against would have a problem with the oath.
Loyalty Day sounds like something you'd hear about in totalitarian regimes, not the US. To declare the day most associated with communism as Loyalty Day is so tone-deaf they'd either have to be idiots or such True Believers that they can't comprehend that a people who rebelled against a king would feel uncomfortable about Loyalty Day.
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