“In the case of the right, the ultimate goal is to preserve and strengthen the United States.”
If the goal of the right is to undermine fundamental aspects of the United States, namely its secular heritage, arguably the cornerstone of our democracy, then what does it matter if they make token gestures to America’s greatness? Their interpretation of American history is so skewed by their religious fanaticism that the America they claim to love and admire as the “greatest nation in history” does not and never has existed. The right’s loyalty is not to America as it is and always has been, it’s to the America they want, one that is completely divorced from its vital secular underpinnings. Just look at the way they mangled the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950′s. If you want to talk politically-motivated historical revisionism, that’s a good place to start.
