“I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.”
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I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.