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How can you keep quiet? How do you have patience for people who claim they love America but clearly can't stand Americans?
— Sydney · The American President
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker is exasperated that anyone can stay calm around people who profess love for their country while plainly disliking its citizens. The questions express disbelief at such hypocrisy and at the patience it seems to demand, treating patriotic talk as hollow when it is coupled with contempt for ordinary people.
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