Dean Barret (at Hugh Hewitt’s blog) asks for a ode (by liberals) of love of Nation, without the normal put downs, praising “America as it currently is”. I thought I’d, although certainly not “lefty”, like to try as well.
And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” But Ruth said,
“Do not urge me to leave you
or to return from following you.For where you go I will go,
and where you lodge I will lodge.
Your people shall be my people,
and your God my God.
Where you die I will die,
and there will I be buried.May the Lord do so to me
and more also if anything
but death parts me from you.”
And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.Patriotism is something to my mind a feeling for country akin to that feeling Ruth held for her mother-in-law [ed digression: imagine that (!?), for her mother-in-law times do change, eh? Actually I think the modern historical attitudes toward in-laws has a lot to do with our modern practices of how we find our mates. /ed digression]. Mr Barnett thinks that the modern writers on the left do not “go with America where she goes” but willingly will opine that “golly, our enemy who thinks we are the “great modern Satan” … has a point.” So, I’d up the challenge for those on the left. Write a paean for our land as it currently is, which compares to Ruth’s declaration for Naomi.
PS: I wonder if the above is an example of a Judeo-Christian normative ethic. 
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