Wokeness is a fanatical faith that can’t be beat with nothing, i.e. going to back to liberalism 5 years ago or “common good” weirdness. The transcendent experience of parenthood as the center of a political and social ideology can do it, consistent with religion and science.
https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1391384337849978882
Nationalism is weak. That's why you need laws on migrants and tariffs, people won't sacrifice a dollar for their "nation." Historical trend has it losing to universalist ideologies: liberal internationalism, wokeness, Communism, Islamism, but they keep running into human nature
There was a slight sliver of history when from about 1789 to 1945, when technology was such that gov had a monopoly on propaganda and got people to die in large numbers for their countries without revolting (still need conscription). But that's not the norm, it was an aberration.
And *American* nationalism is the weakest of all. A country founded on liberalism, with decades of mass immigration, highly polarized, and having gone through several cultural revolutions in the last decades. It’s useful for war mongers and crypto-racialism but not for much else.
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