Studies have shown that the sight of an American flag tends to make voters lean toward the GOP.
Old Glory is supposed to be a symbol of national unity, but this research finds it symbolically resonates most strongly with a specific subset of Americans, reinforcing their values and reminding them which political party shares those beliefs. Which, if you’re a Democrat, isn’t all that glorious.
The real question is why would any party NOT be associated with the flag of its nation.
Well it damn for sure ain’t the dhimmicrats.
wonder which party people associate with the ‘Old Hammer and Sickle’?
I guess the next question would be, who in this country would disassociate with the American flag?
I’ve been to countless tea party rallies, patriot rallies and not once did anyone conceal their face with a mask and the American flag was Omnipresent and there wasn’t as much as a piece of litter anywhere. No broken glass, no fires. No violence.
We went out into kanawha plaza after the first Richmond Tea Party with trash bags. There was literally nothing to pick up.
We respect our flag, our country and it’s citizena.
The godless selfish left? Well, you know.
I have to admit I am suspicious of any person who places great love or great hate in some symbol as simplistic as a particularly patterned and colored piece of cloth.
If it expresses and condenses an idea you find particularly attractive, have at it.
As for me, I’ve pulled it taught over the coffins of our military dead so don’t fuckin’ tell me I have no right to offer an opinion. Those people died under the order of those who propagated that flag overseas. They did their job.
That flag has no political orientation. It is not subject to interpretation of political events as they show up on your TV this morning.
It represents an idea that transcends the failings of men that the founders thought they just might have a chance of placing into operation on the face of this corrupt earth.
I believe history will show their efforts came closer than any before.
Do me a favor. Forget I wrote any of this.
Lowel, I’d never question your patriotism. I’ve been reading your stuff for a long time, and enjoy it. So lets just say I agree. Let’s forget you wrote any of that.
@Lowell
I will both agree and disagree with you. The flag is merely a symbol and that it has draped coffins during meritorious and notorious missions is not the fault of the fallen.
That a particular party embraces those who would desecrate that symbol and it’s ideals is infuriating to me.
Have we always lived up to those noble ideals? Nope.
We, being a group of free thinking individuals, flawed in ways the good Lord warns us of, have failed in many instances.
But this is still the best concept of a country ever devised by mere mortals.
If you disrespect this flag, you’re on Team Satan.
Warts and all, we’re striving to be the closest to godliness on earth. We certainly can do better.
Neither.
The Demonrats lean towards the Swastika and the GOPe towards the Red Star.
Both parties consist of megalomaniacal thieves and liars.
Both are totalitarian at heart and will wave any flag they think will carry them to their goals.
Look at the tax-reform debate and how much the FedGov should ALLOW the peons to KEEP. Fucking disgusting and they don’t even hide it.
izlamo delenda est …
How many new flags did you see flying after 9/11?
Remember that?
Don’t forget it, that’s America.
one must drill down to the original source & find this is a study from the 2012 election, from an earlier study in 2011, who’s methodology is a bit flawed, to say the least … “we find flag exposure provides modest but consistent benefits for Republican candidates among voters high in symbolic patriotism, racial prejudice … ”
if you look at the statistical analysis, you find they originally score ‘strongly Republican’ as +1 & ‘strongly Democrat’ as -1, then when scoring “the tendency of respondents to derogate African Americans relative to whites on feeling thermometers” they jump from ‘strongly Republican’ +1 to ‘strongly Democrat’ 0 … so anyone leaning right is prejudiced, anyone leaning left is neutral
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12305/abstract
… more ‘academic’ bull crap
I think Lowell’s having a bad night. Got no beef with Lowell. But I’m really wondering the motivation in the TU’s. I guess they’re the Antifa Reps for IOTW.
@bad Brad.
TU’s? What’s that?
I’ve never snapped a flag taught over a coffin. Most haven’t. Personally, I’d be of no value as I’d be bawling to whole time. Not exactly the manly image required for the situation.
Good Americans understand. Bad Americans deride.
Some of us that never served stood side by side with those that did when Code Pink threatened to desecrate the Vietnam memorial.
Good Americans stand with our heroes.
Not all like the label “hero”. I get that.
PHenry
I never served. Pops did. Some old guy from the the VFW showed up to blow the trumpet and hand my mother a perfectly folded flag. It’s in a glass case about 30 feet from me right now. The Old Guy from the VFW broke down We ended up freaken consoling him. A good distraction for mom. Until about 1:00 am. Fast forward to these young guys coming home. Not a lot different. I could link really cool Youtube shit. But lets cut to the chase. You try and burn, stomp, disgrace an American flag in front of me be prepared to do battle. I’ll do that for pops. I figure I owe him.
Got it. Totally grok that.
I’ve got a dear friend, a boots on the ground warrior in the marine corps. Check this out. I was supporting his group during one of his deployments. I asked him what they needed. Snacks, hygiene stuff? Yeah sure. But find us books about Yemen, Eastern Africa , etc.
He said that a well educated marine would be a deadlier marine and a survivor. It was a tall order, and I found the books, which I should have read these myself.
Where am I going with this?
All I’m saying is that we are blessed to have incredibly smart people in our military.
God bless them all.
Actually, I owe him one hell of a lot more than that.