When there was an NFL and an AFL, I rooted for the Giants and Y.A. Tittle and the Patriots and Bo Parilli...when the leagues merged into one NFL, I dropped my fandom for the Giants and moved the entire family into Patriot Place. One league...one team....football is a war game...you mean to say you're gonna root for the US and the friggin' Nazis?
Well since the thread got moved because "people aren't being nice" instead of asking for people to be nice what the heck, I'll take on your political question.
Of course not. I'm already rooting for the bad guys and a Nazi coach and live almost in Fascist-like state and it sounds like you have the mantra down yourself. You might just not realize. I don't think it was all that bad either, and I want excellence, organization, perfection. Who's better at it and what would be the point?
Frankly I wouldn't trade one propaganda machine or government for another. I'd rather have neither. Look around. Public speaking. Stifled. Minority. Stepped on and disrespected. Difference of opinion. Unprotected. I'm not sure I would equate any team with the Nazis, but if I had to, we certainly fit the image. Frankly I believe in the real world, I believe the "good guys" are simply the ones who win. They get to write history.
All I know is that that fascism could have been roughly defined as a corporate structure controlled by the government, under the pretense of racial loyalty. It sucks but at least you know who is responsible and who you need to take down and kill when things go bad.
On the other hand what's a government controlled by corporations posing as capitalism? And who do you go after? Number crunchers? Wall Street? Some poor souls were brave enough to try it just last year. How many of the protesters got arrested? How many got shot with stun guns by Police? Does anyone know or even care? Go out and protest and see what happens.
Personally if I had to choose, and we still had a choice, from the little I looked into it, I'd take the Swiss government. It appears to be the closest thing to what we say we are, but aren't, and I think voting still works. The whole purpose of the USA was small government. Transparent.
Since it's not, and because of how things turned out, your dilemma doesn't really matter to me. We have a saying. Don't trade the devil you know for the devil you don't know. If you have never lived somewhere else, I can assure you, you have no idea just how little freedom there is in the USA today. But since I don't know what the alternative would be, I'm in no hurry to root for any drastic changes.
All I know is only need to post one thread in a football forum to see just how ruthless, brainwashed, and closed minded most people have become. You get attacked for every little thing that's against the norm. Frankly I don't see the difference. I know the Nazis didn't speak out against the government out of fear. Very few defended it blindly, ignorantly and arrogantly. The Nazis knew what they were doing was bad and some of them wanted to get rid of Hitler as bad as the rest of the world. The American government has been doing the same thing for years but they managed to brainwash the nation into thinking IT'S GOOD. The rest simply don't care at all and just follow along with whatever it is it's being fed to them.
That's 100x more dangerous if you ask me and it carries through into the mentality of society, especially when it comes to free speech, public opinion. It's completely censored, and completely accepted, and a far cry from the ideology of what once may have been. Individualism and individual thought is now looked down upon and the common man has been brainwashed significantly.
Honestly I wouldn't trade anything for the perspective I have gained in my life thanks to being a dual-citizen. It made me realize the importance of never becoming too loyal to anything and never buying what's being sold as good for you. It may not have lasted long and I was pretty young, but in the couple of years after Communism "went down", at least temporarily, I got a taste of what freedom is supposed to be like. I know what freedom of protest feels like and why its important. I took part of it, even though I had little clue what the hell people were shouting, and most probably didn't know either. But you could feel it. A huge weight that lifts off your shoulders. Thanks to that experience, I am also easily able to detect, when you're no longer free. I can sense when the weight get heavier and heavier, and today I'd say it's heavier than ever.
Same goes for the great USA government, football and being a dual fan. The advantages far outweigh the negatives, imo. Pointing out things like patsfan who's accusing others of what they're actually guilty of but have enough pull to influence authority is no different than how some communist party members acted. It's just irrational fear of that which they don't understand.
And it's always worth speaking out against. Principles are far more important than false ideologies. More important than incredibly dangerous characteristics like loyalty which can often do as much, if not more damage, than good.
