More symptoms of insanity on the American right

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In yesterday's American Thinker, a man with the Italian name of Bonelli wrote the following, extremely offensive statement:

The United States is different from most other countries in many ways. One unique aspect of our country is that our elected officials, officers of the court, and the military, all pledge their allegiance to the Constitution and not to an office, individual or party. This assures continuity of the ideals set forth by the founders.

As an Italian citizen, I have personally sworn to defend the Constitution of my country when I served in the Italian army. The presumption involved in this ignorant display of insular arrogance is an insult to every constitutional government in the world.

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Re: The cultural exception argument

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Yes. And the US bishops are in the crosshairs of the conservatives within the Catholic Church because they have said that they would favour a national health service apart from the matter of abortion. My impression is that a lot of conservatives are using abortion as an excuse (some of them favour it) to get support from Catholics and other Christians, but their main argument is always that "socialized medicine" is some sort of tyranny. This is the same kind of people who insist that Fascism and Nazism were branches of Socialism.

Re: The cultural exception argument

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The conservatives within the Catholic Church in America oppose the bishops? Excuse me but I fit in that category! The christians who oppose nationalized health care are mainly Protestants of the fundamental flavor.