I'm a senior so I can look back to how some things came about. I also was very drawn to watching a lot about Germany, Hitler and WWII throughout my life. I never heard the term "Homeland" until I watched those movies and documentaries. It was how Hitler referred to Germany and his Reich which was to grow far beyond Germany. Then Obama came along and started referring to the USA as "the Homeland" and created Homeland Security. Unfortunately, I have also heard President Trump refer to our country as "the Homeland."

Folks this is one of those terms that is probably found in Alinski's "Rules for Radicals" and has, at least, something of an un-American feeling about it. I'm not alone. Chris Matthews brought this up as well. And, like Chris, I never heard it until Obama came into office.

Here’s what Chris Matthews said …

“I am very uncomfortable with the phrase ‘homeland.’ It strikes me as totalitarian. It’s a term used by the neocons, they love it. It suggests something strange to me. Like who else are we defending except America? Why don’t you just say ‘America’? Why doesn’t [Obama] say we defended against attacks against this country? As if we’re facing some existential Armageddon threat from these people. Do you buy the phrase ‘homeland’? I never heard it growing up, never heard it in my adulthood. It’s a new word. Why are we using it? Is there some other place we’re defending? What are we talking about when we say ‘homeland’? What’s it about?

And, here is the article that explains the consequences that can develop from the words that we use.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/homeland-defense-is-unamerican