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Originally Posted by Christien
Rick, I think that's a really insightful post, and you draw a really good line between benign patriotism and potential damaging nationalism. I would further add that patriotism turns to nationalism when 1. a person becomes blind to the problems with their own society and fails to tolerate rational dissent, even discussion about those problems and 2. becomes blind to the good (perhaps better) portions of other societies and fails to tolerate dissent/discussion about those good points. Basically, when it goes from pride to dogma.
I think by that definition there are many people in the USA right now that are leaning dangerously close to nationalism, and your president is leading that movement.
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You have put here much more succinctly part of what I had in mind with my previous post.
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