Because I found that line interesting.
Quite the contrary, which is why I wrote “I’d encourage others to read them too”.
Both the communist and the labor movements were consciously internationalist.
I don’t think that the American Democrats would be internationalist except for those influences. the traditional Southern Democrat wasn’t “less patriotic”.
However, the traditional Southern Democrat was less federalist than a northern republican: that may play into their support for the federal government, which may play into their self-reported “patriotism”.
During my lifetime, the Republican Party and many of it’s members have pretended to be Patriotism Incarnate, almost constantly. They have also almost constantly, done so for entirely political reasons. Usually for short term political gain. And again and again, what they tried to do in the name of patriotism, was to destroy the United States from within.
Right now, they are worse than ever before. During the last administration, the Republican Party pretended to care deeply about Americans in uniform; but sent them into wars that were not at all thought out, without proper equipment, and without bothering to fund them. They took the country to the brink of defaulting on it’s foreign obligations several times, and drove up the cost of borrowing for the entire nation, simply to play a small political game against a President they didn’t like. They declared that the Constitution didn’t apply to them, whenever they didn’t want it to (despite foreign relations and treaty negotiations being clearly defined as under the Executive Branch, they declared Congress to have those authorities, and when it came to the appointment of Executive and Judicial offices, they played the same game). They pretended to support a version of States Rights which was in line with the last attempt to overthrow the United States Federal Government, again for the sake of local politics. They CUT the budget for care for Americans in uniform, and are threatening to do so again, not for the sake of any American Patriotic interests, but simply to free up funds for an additional tax cut for the rich. And they want to eliminate specialty military medical care, not because it makes sense medically, but because they want more private for profit doctors to benefit from providing care.
Individual Republicans might be truly patriotic. As a party, they are traitors.IMPLIED.
That is all.
Damn right! I blame the confusion of these terms on the lesser-known 1975 disaster sequel The Towering Implyno.
But not in any way indicative of the study’s findings. In fact, quite the opposite.
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A substantial consideration of the ‘patriotism’ issue is in the way people come to identify with the two major parties. R’s often come to their party because they are inherently more fearful of both internal and external attacks against their (country, race, religion, sex, etc.) D’s, liberals, don’t see a need to proclaim how they will take up arms to defend their (_______). For us, it is a matter of course, that if we are needed, we’ll be there. R’s have a history of proclaiming liberal social practices obscene, immoral etc., while fighting those urges in themselves or practicing them in secret. In short, R’s are no more patriotic or ‘good’ or productive than D’s. They just have to keep telling the world how wonderful they are in order to get through their day.
Why are ghosts touching so many people?
Self reported claims of x make x true, meaning no analysis whatsoever as to the veracity of the self reported claim is warranted, which is of course why I am president of the European States of Canamerico Federation.
Reminds me of fandom arguments. The true fans read the books, comics, and play the video games; filthy casuals only watch the show.
Hipster patriots - saluting the flag before it was cool.
What are you talking about? It was a line from the study, summarizing an earlier study. How do you figure it was “the opposite”?
No. What are you talking about?.. I read the study.
You’ve glommed on to a single sentence from a 1988 study (without context) that favours your political p.o.v. I find that revealing because the meta-study we’re talking about lends no credence or support to that snippet. It just mentions it in passing as a contrasting point to what is actually being addressed in this study, which is: “Relative to liberals, conservatives were more likely to endorse favorable but unlikely self-evaluations, to provide socially desirable self-reports, to view themselves as better than average, unique, and ideal…”
Do you agree or disagree?
Why do the aliens abduct so many more of the gullible?
Becuase you took it out of context. The context showing that that snippet meant the opposite of what the out of context quote you took.
So, yes, makes it very interesting. If I had to WAG, I would say that the dems who self assessed as “extremely” are the psychologically well adjusted, while the R’s that assessed that way are the religious, and westerners looking to stand out while living in an unequal, individualistic society.
And that explains to me why it is important to conservatives to not only claim to be more patriotic, but to also consider themselves superior to those they deem as less so.
And this quote from the study
Answers the question that you should have asked in the OP, “Why do republicans self-asses themselves to be more patriotic than democrats do?”
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So conservatives are more likely to be psychologically well-adjusted, and/or religious. I don’t think the part about living in an individualistic society affects the results much, since Democrats and Republicans live in the same country.
Regards,
Shodan
Conservatives who consider themselves uniquely above average are well-adjusted and/or religious, but liberals who consider themselves uniquely above average are special snowflakes who have been given too many participation trophies.
'Tis a fine line between “[s]elf-enhancement, or the tendency to evaluate oneself in an unrealistically favorable light” and self-delusion.
Illusory superiority, “which also is known as the Above-average effect, the superiority bias, the leniency error, the sense of relative superiority, the primus inter pares effect, and the Lake Wobegon effect.”
I would say more “or” than “and”. I think it is pretty well established that conservatives tend to be more religious than democrats.
As far as the “living in individualistic society”, yes, both dems and r’s live in the same country, but, IMHO, r’s do have a “heightened motivation to stand out from others”.