People who love and defend a government are creating parental figures out of the state instead of growing up and taking their stand as mature individuals.
People who love and defend a government are creating parental figures out of the state instead of growing up and taking their stand as mature individuals.
That’s not really her argument, which is that you cannot have any emotional relationship with a country.
But even your version is flawed. She lives in Australia and hates what happens to Gazans but is not impacted by what happens to Ukrainians and Uyghurs?
I think the title, opening sentence and paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 & 8 all show that she’s talking mostly about love in the sense of support and identify with.
Only paragraph 4 talks about the impossiblity of a personal connection with a nation and the next paragraph makes it clear that it’s a side point.
It’s an imprecise and out-of-place side point that I don’t agree with, but it’s not proof of her secret support of authoritarianism.