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Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast. This is a

sample of our recent bonus episode usually only available to members. These

episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda and myself all getting together

for a roundtable discussion on topics that we find interesting. So here's a few minutes for free

so you can know what all the fuss is about. I just wanted to talk about the feeling of responsibility, which I think, at least at this point in my life I feel is much more tied to patriotism

than I have ever felt previously. You know they mentioned this article that part of

the reason patriotism sounds strange and old-fashioned and weird is because we live in a global society where we are dealing with global existential threats like climate change and war and like where it's not just a country is being affected,

it's vast regions are being affected and that shifts your perspective from just looking within your borders to, okay, how are we doing as a species, which seems much more important at this moment.

And I think the way I can tie that to some version of liberal patriotism is that, especially

as Americans, because our country has this outsized influence, we have to take responsibility for the fact that it does

and take responsibility for the fact that how America goes impacts the entire world in a way that it shouldn't but it does. And so taking

that responsibility is well where can I make change in my little corner of the

earth so that globally we are headed in a better direction and of

course everyone in the world can think about that in their own corner of the earth

but as Americans you have to take responsibility for the fact that we are way

more powerful than we have any business being and have way more influence than we have any

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