Seeing a US Flag can Shift Voters to the Right

[MattShizzle]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/07/10/seeing-an-american-flag-can-shift-voters-towards-republicanism/

For those who have never been to the US, the flag is pretty much everywhere. And as doing that promotes Nationalism which favors a right wing agenda it's not a big surprise.


Where else did they have the national flag flying all over the place all the time?

http://www.sephardicstudies.org/images/nazi-flags-in-krakow.jpg

[ColonelCossack]

I have heard that in the near future America is going to move to the VERY far right i.e. fascsim- though I can't remember where I heard it from :cursing:

[MattShizzle]

It certainly seems like it sometimes. Yeah, the Democratic party is pretty bad but the Republican party is Fascist in all but name.

[Rusty Shackleford]

It certainly seems like it sometimes. Yeah, the Democratic party is pretty bad but the Republican party is Fascist in all but name.
no, not really.

[Pretty Flaco]

If you think the Republican Party is fascist than you don't know what you're talking about. The Republican Party is staunchly conservative socially and economically they support libertarian policies. However, militarily the Democrats and Republicans are practically identical these days. The Democrats are known for supporting things, but then "forgetting" about them once they get into office.

Neither are fascist in any sense of the word, so shut up. ;)

[Threetune]

It’s a vivid sight like the Union Jack; it looks like a butcher’s apron. :laugh:

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

If you think the Republican Party is fascist than you don't know what you're talking about. The Republican Party is staunchly conservative socially and economically they support libertarian policies. However, militarily the Democrats and Republicans are practically identical these days. The Democrats are known for supporting things, but then "forgetting" about them once they get into office.

Neither are fascist in any sense of the word, so shut up. ;)

They are not fascist, but nor do they have "libertarian policies". They are the pragmatic and practical application of such, it is true, but they are not libertarian, socially or economically; as evident by the passion for corporate welfare and various policies that actively seek to provide private enterprise with state- and municipal support.

The Republicans have been for some time now been moving quite fast to the more extreme spectrum of the political right, though the democrats been pretty much stamping the same ground since the 1950's; and if this right-ward shift towards further extremism, jingoism, nativism and borderline theocratic aspirations, then the U.S. might turn into something that might resemble fascism.

[Sun Wukong]

Alongside the flag the fetishisation of THE CONSTITUTION is very telling in just how jingoistic, chauvinistic and borderline-fascist the United States is IMO. Those two words are used simultaneously as a justification for basically anything and as a kind of divine figurehead.

*boring liberal shouts something with a vaguely anti-war sentiment at a politician's public rally*
*security guards drag them away, silencing them*
politician: "I love the constitution!!"
*crowd cheers*

I swear I cannot see any meaningful difference between Kim Jong-il propaganda and the seal of the POTUS

[Revy]

Where else did they have the national flag flying all over the place all the time?
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That's not the German national flag. It's the Nazi flag. The German flag is the black-red-gold tricolor popularized in the Revolutions of 1848.

No doubt the slight change we are seeing is from "undecided" voters, who will likely be swayed by anything, so why not be swayed by the mere sight of an American flag?

0YOh-rpvjYg

[Sun Wukong]

That's not the German national flag. It's the Nazi flag. The German flag is the black-red-gold tricolor created in the Revolutions of 1848.

No doubt the slight change we are seeing is from "undecided" voters, who will likely be swayed by anything, so why not be swayed by the mere sight of an American flag?

0YOh-rpvjYg
Oh man what great political insight we're going to get from a family guy youtube...

Anyway, it just seems that American's are reminded how disgusting and reactionary they are by the flag and so vote for the ever-so-slightly-more disgusting and reactionary party

[Sasha]

Wow, an godwin in all its glory already in the OP. Congrats on losing your own thread.

[RadioRaheem84]

I don't know why it's so hard for people in here to picture the US devolving into a fascist state?

No one could believe that Chile, a country with a long history of Republicanism, would ever devolve into military dictatorship, but half the nation turned right wing.

The whole US is not right wing, but there is a significant portion that would support a rightward turn if they suspected the US turning socialist, like if there was a real perceived threat of the nation turning even social democrat.

Imagine if Obama was really the progressive he said he was going to be on the campaign trail, there would be a huge portion of Americans siding with the Army taking over.

[Coach Trotsky]

So, it's sorta okay when the Democrats do it? So we gotta support the Democrats in order to prevent the 'Republican-fascists' from getting more power?
Come on, folks. This is RevLeft, right?

I get the feeling we'll be hearing more of this "Democrats are the lesser evil" stuff popping up on the way to the US presidential elections in late 2012.
Hmm, maybe this is a big part of why the Revolutionary Left doesn't garner much popular respect in America? Every time a bourgeois election cycle gets underway, and especially toward the end, the pressure is brought upon us to temporarily shelve everything we stand for and choose the Democrats.
Hell no. Enough is enough! Not a single vote for the Democrats or Republicans!