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I was advocating a kind of progressive patriotism – one that was soon embraced by Britain’s political class, beginning with Blair himself.
White, English, working-class men over the age of 55 feel particularly excluded from the progressive version of patriotism, and fear becoming a minority in their “own” country.
He is someone who had long since reached the point in life when he felt compelled by duty and patriotism to step beyond the role of a surgeon and become a public citizen.
While publicly proclaiming their patriotism, other members of China’s ruling elites are stashing their ill-gotten wealth abroad and sending their children to elite Western schools and universities.
Putin's war in Chechnya enables him to keep public opinion mobilized and to accuse the opposition of lacking patriotism, even of treason.
A leader who respects his or her opponents is more likely to earn respect himself than one who doubts their patriotism and resents their criticism.
Today, one gets the impression that every third Russian is wearing the Ribbon of Saint George, an orange and black symbol of patriotism and loyalty to the Kremlin.
The Scoundrels of Economic PatriotismSamuel Johnson called patriotism “the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
But, by asserting that the vessels entered Russian waters illegally, not to mention escalating tensions with the West, Putin may be hoping to breathe new life into the siege narrative, thereby inspiring the kind of primitive patriotism on which he has long relied.
The grand military parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, planned for January 29 in St. Petersburg, may inspire patriotism, but it will in no way reflect the real drama of the city’s starving inhabitants.
“Economic patriotism,” the slogan coined by France’s Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin following PepsiCo’s rumored attempt in July 2005 to takeover Danone, perhaps best encapsulates the political imperative.
The basic belief that underpins “economic patriotism” is that of an alignment of interests between companies considered “national” (most prominently the largest ones or so-called “champions”), their national employees, and the national community.
These gun-toting extremists, whose idea of patriotism is to regard the federal government as the enemy, are different from 1930s Brownshirts only in name.
In fact, in appealing to British patriotism to boost support for European integration, Brown is betting on the UK’s self-confidence, its democratic essence, and its economic performance.
Nationalistic young people, proud of China’s newfound global economic and political power, gladly volunteer their time to show off their patriotism on the Internet.
The new political paradigm is founded on a kind of centrist populism, which blends support for globalization with a healthy dose of social protection and a generous pinch of patriotism.
For them, patriotism means being harder-headed about protecting the national interest and adopting more democratic policies that help the working masses, not jet-setting fat cats.
Mainstream parties must reclaim the mantle of patriotism and redefine the national interest accordingly.
Is patriotism really the key to this kind of spirit for national teams, as the German critics of their team believe?
Finally, while nation states remain the basic building blocs in international affairs, and loyalty to your nation – patriotism – is a fine thing, crude nationalism can be deeply destructive.
Back to SocialismLONDON – The remarkable thing about Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left outsider who stunned the British establishment by capturing the leadership of the Labour Party, is not his alleged lack of patriotism.
Unfortunately, political disunity in the face of financial pressure always ends up being far more damaging to democracy and the economy than instinctive patriotism.
Such manifestations would have appeared pathetic and pompous;I would have regarded them as a haughtier version of the kind of patriotism that I dislike from national patriots.
Dominique de Villepin’s government turned away from this challenge in favor of “economic patriotism” – that is, protecting supposed national champions from foreign takeover.
Addressing the UN General Assembly, Trump stated openly that, “We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.”
Yet globalism and patriotism are not incompatible concepts.
Trump’s invocation of patriotism has no aim other than to whitewash his nationalist and nativist tendencies.
Watching the celebration of patriotism behind the raising of the French flag and the singing of the national anthem during the first round of the campaign, one can easily believe that the British vision of a Europe of independent nation states has won already, if only by default.
Liberalism has not been abandoned, but a dash of populism and Hungarian patriotism has been added to the brew: "While we wish to feel at home in NATO and the EU," Orban declared at a rapturous FIDESZ congress on June 6the, "we do not wish our good feelings about our home here to fade".
The American people have been treated to a spectacle of jingoism, fear mongering, confusion of Iraq with Osama bin Laden's terrorists, and simple patriotism.
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