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Originally Posted by Barnard17
They're not true displays of the sort of nationalist sentiment that, for example, you'd see at a Presidential inauguration. They're brainwashing.
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Brainwashed? Maybe so but, at the same time, I can't think of another word that quite describes a society that has gone through two Red Scares and still lives in the shadow of McCarthyism; the (fantastically hypocritical) pledge of allegiance; a very peculiar news media and so on.
Is it really that different?