Jonah: I can’t agree with your correspondent. It’s not that all dissenters love an abstract, future America. What if I just love my country too much to sit by quietly while it goes down a bad road — say, fights a bad war, for example?

I can understand that Marxist criticism is inherently unpatriotic because it seeks to tear down the nation violently and replace it with an ideological vision. But not all war protesters are Marxists. What about ordinary people of good will who dissent from a policy?

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