Why Are the Poor Patriotic? by David Swanson

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, June 15, 2018
June 20, 2018

We should be very grateful to Francesco Duina for his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country. He begins with the following dilemma. The poor in the United States are in many ways worse off than in other wealthy countries, but they are more patriotic than are the poor in those other countries and even more patriotic than are wealthier people in their own country. Their country is (among wealthy countries) tops in inequality, and bottoms in social support, and yet they overwhelmingly believe that the United States is “fundamentally better than other countries.” Why?

Max Blumenthal: US Interference in Nicaragua + Nicaraguan Opposition Suspends Negotiations: A Return to Violence?

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US journalist Max Blumenthal has just published an in-depth look at US interference in Nicaragua – a particularly important development of which has been a recent meeting between Nicaraguan student opposition leaders and right-wing neoconservative figures in Washington.