Oikophobia - the opposite of patriotism

James Taranto:

If you think it's offensive for a Muslim group to exploit the 9/11 atrocity, you're an anti-Muslim bigot and un-American to boot. It is a claim so bizarre, so twisted, so utterly at odds with common sense that it's hard to believe anyone would assert it except as some sort of dark joke. Yet for the past few weeks, it has been put forward, apparently in all seriousness, by those who fancy themselves America's best and brightest, from the mayor of New York all the way down to Peter Beinart.

Bigotry against ones fellow citizens on the basis of their politics is also bigotry. Bigotry is baseless prejudice, and there is no better example than the vicious belittling by 'progressives' of the intelligence and motives of anybody who disagrees with their agenda.

Read the whole thing. Print it out and post it on the fridge for your kids to read. Read it again and talk about it. It'll do you all good, especially the quotes from Charles Krauthammer. (The best bargain anywhere.)