You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy

Published March 30, 2018

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"Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as “heroes.” The rhetorical sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, but it also makes honest and serious conversations necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of a fragile democracy nearly impossible."

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https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/you-dont-protect-my-freedom-our-childish-insistence-on-calling-soldiers-heroes-deadens-real-democracy